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The cover of "Whistler" and author Ann Patchett. (Courtesy of Harper and Emily Dorio) Tennessee author Ann Patchett is celebrated for her novels including "Bel Canto," "The Dutch House" and "Tom Lake, ...

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With its glacier-crowned peaks and long, powder-heavy pistes, Whistler is a dream winter sports destination. But Canada’s largest ski resort — officially called Whistler Blackcomb, after its two ...

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In Ann Patchett’s 11th novel Whistler, a former stepfather and stepdaughter, Eddie and Daphne, meet again by chance after 44 years. They rekindle their bond (before long, Eddie is introducing Daphne ...

Ann Patchett’s new novel, “Whistler,” is a rare phenomenon in contemporary fiction: a novel both majestic and intimate, original and masterful in its structure, crystalline in its prose, revelatory in ...

Ann Patchett’s novels tend to be full of decent, helpful people, maybe none more so than her latest book, Whistler, about a beloved stepfather who reappears in a middle-aged woman’s life. The reasons ...

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New conservation research has verified James McNeill Whistler‘s earliest-known portrait, experts say. The exceptionally rare painting reveals the young artist during a crucial period of ...

Daphne Fuller, Patchett’s protagonist, lives with her husband Jonathan, a retired physician, in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. She teaches English to teenage girls at a private school. Her younger sister ...