A stirring novel about family life from one of the greatest contemporary American writers, Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Tyler.
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up
in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include
Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick
Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging
to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the
Side of the Road and French Braid.
In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by
Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in
English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for
Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted
for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and
in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the
Booker Prize.
Funny, serious, touching, zany, delightful, revealing...a triumph
of perception
*Harper's*
Anne Tyler has won herself a devoted following. Rightly so: her
novels are beautifully controlled, witty, subtle, with an
undercurrent of human warmth
*Sunday Telegraph*
She is a writer who gets to the heart of the matter without being
glib, and cleverly reveals the extraordinary in seemingly ordinary
lives
*Daily Mail*
Anne Tyler's touch is deft, her perceptions keen, her ear for
speech phenomenal, her people triumphantly alive... Only a rarely
talented novelist could have written this fine book
*New York Times*
Her fiction is a quiet, gentle reminder of the goodness to be found
in most ordinary lives
*Observer*
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