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It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited and notices a heart-stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later. In 1988, Franny Keating, now twenty-four, has dropped out of law school and is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets the famous author Leon Posen one night at the bar, and tells him about her family, she unwittingly relinquishes control over their story
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Commonwealth, Ann Patchett
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- Commonwealth
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ann Patchett
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Trade
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1408880393
- ISBN13
- 9781408880395
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Family, Contemporary Fiction, USA, Relationships, American Literature, Fun, Psychological novels, Family relationships, Siblings, Sagas, Divorce, Family Sagas, California, Togetherness, 1960s, Americans, Half-Siblings
- First published
- 2016
- Original title
- Commonwealth
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited and notices a heart-stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later. In 1988, Franny Keating, now twenty-four, has dropped out of law school and is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets the famous author Leon Posen one night at the bar, and tells him about her family, she unwittingly relinquishes control over their story