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A Slipping-down Life by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction | Series: Arena Bks.
In a Southern town, teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead their two lives become entwined. The author also wrote
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZEA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...? This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summ ...Show more
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . ." This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kin ...Show more
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And y ...Show more
A Spool of Blue Thread (Audio CD, unabridged, 11 CDs) by Anne Tyler
Category: Audio
International bestselling author From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author - now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career - comes a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. 'It was a beautiful, breez ...Show more
Back When We Were Grown-ups by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction
When Joe Davitch first saw Rebecca, it was at a party at the Davitch home - a crumbling nineteenth-century house in Baltimore where giving parties was the family business. Young Rebecca looked to Joe like the girl having more fun than anyone in the room and he wanted some of that happiness to spill over ...Show more
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction
Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, married to Ira and with two children. Her eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested one hot summer day. Maggie and Ira dr ...Show more
Celestial Navigation by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction
The Pultizer Prize-winning author of Saint Maybe and Breathing Lessons offers the beloved story of a man whose contented life in his rundown house in Baltimore is shaken to its core, after his sister moves in with him and his boarder starts bringing home babies. Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has ...Show more
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction
NATIONAL BEST SELLER! A charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances from the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. I ...Show more
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction
New York Times Bestseller A charming novel of self-discovery and second chances from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread Willa Drake has had three opportunities to start her life over: in 1967, as a schoolgirl whose mother has suddenly disappeared; in 1977, when considering a ...Show more