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  2. The Patron Saint of Liars (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Patron Saint of Liars is a 1992 novel, written by Ann Patchett. This is the first novel published by Patchett, and it was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. [ 1 ] Patchett completed the manuscript for The Patron Saint of Liars during a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. [ 2 ]

  3. The Patron Saint of Liars (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Patron Saint of Liars is a 1998 drama television film based on the novel of the same name by Ann Patchett.It tells the story of Rose Abbot, a young woman who abandons her life in California with her husband after finding out she is pregnant.

  4. The Patron Saint of Liars - Wikipedia

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    The Patron Saint of Liars may refer to: The Patron Saint of Liars, a 1992 novel by Ann Patchett; The Patron Saint of Liars, its 1998 television film adaptation This ...

  5. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship - Wikipedia

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    After a quick marriage and divorce Patchett works as a waitress while Lucy is stuck in Aberdeen awaiting a promising jaw surgery that will reconstruct her face. Patchett obtains a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center and while there completes her debut novel The Patron Saint of Liars. It sells immediately.

  6. List of patron saints by occupation and activity - Wikipedia

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    Saint Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, with a cannon. Academics - Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great; Actors - Genesius [1] Comic actors - Maturinus; Accountants - Matthew; Advertisers - Bernardino of Siena [2] Air travellers - Joseph of Cupertino; Altar servers - John Berchmans, [3] Tarcisius, Lorenzo Ruiz; Ambassadors - Gabriel the Archangel

  7. Anya Jenkins - Wikipedia

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    Anyanka "Anya" Jenkins was born as Aud in the 9th century in Sjornjost, a small Scandinavian village. Aud grew up raising rabbits and became an outsider in her community, which dismissed her as "odd" (a homophone for Aud), because of her strange mannerisms and out-of-the-ordinary ideas (such as not wanting to sell the rabbits she had been breeding, but instead giving them to people in the ...

  8. Patron saint - Wikipedia

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    Saints often become the patrons of places where they were born or had been active. However, there were cases in medieval Europe where a city which grew to prominence obtained for its cathedral the remains or some relics of a famous saint who had lived and was buried elsewhere, thus making them the city's patron saint – such a practice conferred considerable prestige on the city concerned.

  9. Stephen Gyllenhaal - Wikipedia

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    Gyllenhaal was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Virginia Lowrie (née Childs) and Hugh Anders Gyllenhaal.He is of Swedish and English descent; through his father, he is a member of the Gyllenhaal family, and a descendant of the cavalry officer Nils Gunnesson Haal, who was ennobled in 1652 when Queen Christina of Sweden conferred upon him the crest and family name, "Gyllenhaal".