Run

De: Ann Patchett

Narrado por: Peter Francis James

""Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family."" -- Washington Post

From New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed.

Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving possessive and ambitions father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see is sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe.

Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic Priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met. As an in her bestselling novel, Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.

Loose Ends

The story raised many political and humanitarian issues: racism and all of its negative effects on people of color - medical attention paid to Tennessee, allowing Kenya to remain behind at the scene of the accident and allowing Doyle to take Kenya home. All of these situations show how race “colors” our compassion. The book raises the questions. It is the readers’ job to strive for solutions.
I would have liked to know more about Sullivans - priest and son. Good book for discussion.

Captivating characters

This is a moving and poignant story that captures a reader and engages you with the characters. Well done.

I love Ann Patchett but...

I just finished the latest Ann Patchett - read by Tom Hanks and LOVED IT. This one not so much- it is an interesting story of white and black becoming a family and was engaging enough. Ms. Patchett excels at character development and i could see all of them in the story. Ultimately though this recording was significantly marred by the ghastly inter chapter MUZAK which some idiot decided was a good idea. It never felt right and destroyed the mood and the flow- but if the whole presentation had been better i don’t think i would have paid so much attention to the gak music.

Disappointed

Arduous to get through. Again, another book tied together in last few pages. Seems to be the norm today.

What’s with the musical interludes

I loved this book and really enjoyed the reader. I really did not like the weird music between many chapters.