A love-story gem from the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread
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 and Redhead by the
Side of the Road.
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.
Bursting with vitality and variety, it's a tour de force . . .
fizzes with the qualities – characters who almost leap off the page
with authenticity, speech and body language wonderfully caught –
that, for more than half a century, have won her such admiration
and affection
*Sunday Times*
As always, Tyler is a magician, able to conjure up, in a handful of
sentences, such endlessly complicated things as the comical
messiness of family life . . . You finish her novels feeling closer
to life, and closer to other people
*Mail on Sunday*
Almost unbearably poignant . . . a moving and perceptive story
about one man’s inability to connect with others and his gradual
move towards greater self-fulfilment
*Sunday Express*
Anne Tyler has the ability to take the minutiae of characters’
lives and say wise things about the human condition that other
writers can only dream of
*Stylist*
Tyler has every gift a great novelist needs: intent observation,
empathy and language both direct and surprising. She has
unembarrassed goodness as well. In this time of snark, preening,
sub-tweeting and the showy torment of characters, we could use more
Tyler
*New York Times*
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