![]() ![]() The eccentric researcher running the project, Dr. Marina Singh is a pharmacologist working for a major drug researcher that has been funding a long-running development project deep in the Amazon basin, where the women in a tribe of natives, the Lakashi, maintain fertility well into their 70s. That novel lost all of what made Patchett special, even in the quality of her prose, but State of Wonder brings everything back together. ![]() In between those two books, Patchett wrote just one novel, the embarrassing Run, a not-even-thinly-veiled love letter to then Senator Barack Obama, whom Patchett clearly hoped would run for President and win. The Top 100 prospects package will run the week of January 27th.Īnn Patchett’s 2011 novel State of Wonder marks a return to form for the author of one of my all-time favorite novels, Bel Canto, where she pays homage to Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain while drawing on the real-life hostage crisis at the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru. Thursday’s Klawchat had a lot of Hall of Fame talk plus some prospect content. ![]()
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