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Ann Patchett

By Ann Patchett 4/18/05 12:00am

Famous, Infamous Jane-Confusing Life a Real Workout

My Life So Far, by Jane Fonda. Random House, 600 pages, $26.95.

If ever a novelist was born to review a 600-page autobiography by Jane Fonda, I’m it.

Under any other circumstance, I would hold to the belief that a book review is no place for the first-person pronoun, but these are no ordinary Read More

By Ann Patchett 12/13/04 12:00am

Whispered in Your Ear, A Moral Man’s Good Word

Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 247 pages, $23.

It would be difficult to pinpoint exactly when Christianity began its 20th-century nose-dive, but certainly it lost a great deal of its shine when it hooked up with television. The call to Jesus became less a turn toward goodness and more a sort Read More