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by: Ann Patchett

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Average Rating: Rating: - Excellent Read Bel Canto is a beautiful novel. At the explosive beginning you are introduced to the characters, all of whom you begin to care for. After the terrorists take control of the mansion and the party guests within it, the book's beauty begins to show. For most of the book, it is as if time has stopped. Real world cares do not matter anymore. Life is lived, and that is it. Highly recommended Rating: - Entertaining, Captivating Read In Bel Canto, Ann Patchett's lyrical and haunting prose is perfectly tuned to her impossibly romantic tale. The title, literally translated "beautiful singing", refers to a specific kind of operatic singing, and certainly opera and music play a significant role in the novel. Because of that, a familiarity with opera must add to a reader's enjoyment of the book, but it's not at all necessary. (I am not fond of opera, but I liked this book.) Personally, I think Patchett gives too much credence to music's power to soothe the savage breast, but I can't prove it, so I'm willing to give her some poetic license. This is, more specifically, a tale of relationships forged within an artificial environment that starts out as harsh and turns idyllic. Patchett revels in her characters' thoughts and feelings rather than in their actions, so the pace is slow, with an almost dreamlike quality that is carried right through to the end of the book. As for the epilogue, I liked it very much. Far from being surprised or disappointed by it, I felt it to be the only possible resolution. Perhaps I'm giving Ann Patchett too much credit, but I find it utterly impossible to believe that she would call her heroine something as unusual as Roxanne without a specific purpose. The name recalls another heroine whose true love's words were spoken to her by another, and I found the resonance delightful. So, if you're a lover of poetry and classical romance, give this one a try. Rating: - Ahh...The Power of Music there are moments while one is in the midst of reading this wonders to themselves how it is that these very different chararacters come together & fall in love. The author has taken the most unlikely women & men and had them fall deeply for each other against the background of unspeakable depravitiy. As one reads the story & continues to wonder why, the author does reveal to the reader not with words but with her thoughts that what she describes as love goes above & beyond what we everyday humans can ever imagine. In Bel Canto love is the ability to feel safe with another person (even if the thoughts of safty are an illusion) & for two people to be together (even if they don't speak the same language); to know that they can feel each other through music. This is a novel of how music touches our souls; & therefore our hearts as well. A worthy read for those who can only imagine the unimaginable....

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