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In “Commonwealth,” novelist Ann Patchett tells a story of an affair, two broken marriages, and the legacy of the breakup for both parents and children. Patchett appears Monday, Sept. 19, ...

Handsome, impetuous Bert Cousins sets in motion Ann Patchett’s new novel, “Commonwealth,” when he arrives uninvited at a christening party carrying a bottle of gin. He doesn’t know it, but ...

In Ann Patchett's new novel Commonwealth, a christening party takes a turn when one guest arrives with a bottle of gin. The gin leads to a wonderfully sloppy afternoon with cocktail mixing, ...

Ann Patchett's absorbing novels often have fantastic or dramatic premises, such as a hostage situation in South America involving an opera singer (2001's Bel Canto) or the story of a woman who ...

“Commonwealth” (Harper Collins, $27.99, 336 pages), Ann Patchett’s moving, beautifully crafted novel, begins with the sort of set piece that often looms large in stories including divorce as ...

Ann Patchett opens her splendid new novel Commonwealth (Harper, 322 pp., **** out of four stars), with one of the most enticing first sentences I have read in ages: “The christening party took a ...

Commonwealth is actually Patchett's seventh novel, but it draws heavily on her own family experience, and she compares it to the classic thinly-veiled autobiography often written by young authors.