Word: patchett
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...Patchett takes us to an unnamed South American country, where terrorists intend to abduct the president from a birthday party in honor of a prominent Japanese businessman. However, when they discover that the president is not in attendance, the terrorists instead hold the entire party hostage...
Indeed, much of what makes “Bel Canto” so engaging is the attention Patchett gives to the terrorists. Instead of portraying them as an unidentifiable mass of evil, Patchett writes about them as individuals, presenting their struggles alongside those of their hostages. With their initial plan foiled, the terrorists no longer have a course of action and struggle to agree about what they want. Though they have a general attitude of “working to free the people,” they are lost on what that specifically means...
...Canto By Ann Patchett Harper Perennial...
DIED. JEAN PATCHETT, 75, popular fashion model who was featured on more than 40 magazine covers, including Vogue, in the 1950s; of emphysema; in La Quinta, Calif. Irving Penn, who made Patchett famous with a moody 1949 photograph that showed her sitting in a cafe chewing on her pearls, called her an "American goddess in Paris couture...