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Anne Tyler A Slipping-down Life (Cosmopolitanonly)
Vintage 0099583518 / 9780099583516 PAPERBACK Good
0099583518 Editorial Reviews n nReview n"TO READ A NOVEL BY ANNE TYLER IS TO FALL IN LOVE." n-People n n"Anne Tyler is a wise and perceptive writer with a warm understanding of human foible." n-St. Louis Post-Dispatch n n"All of Tyler's novels are wonderful." n-Newsweek n n"One of the most beguiling and mesmerizing writers in America." n-The Cleveland Plain Dealer n n"Not merely good . . . She is wickedly good!" n-John Updike n n"A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . A very funny writer. . . Not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well." n-Newsweek n n"Tyler's characters have character: quirks, odd angles of vision, colorful mean streaks and harmonic longings." n-Time n n"Her people are triumphantly alive." n-The New York Times n n"Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place." n-Newsweek n n--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. n nProduct Description nIn a small Southern town, teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead, their two lives become unforgettably entwined in this remarkable novel. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Anne Tyler Back When We Were Grownups: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Ballantine Books 0345446860 / 9780345446862 PAPERBACK Fine
0345446860 Amazon Review nThe first sentence of Anne Tyler's 15th novel sounds like something out of a fairy tale: Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. Alas, this discovery has less to do with magic than with a late-middle-age crisis, which is visited upon Rebecca Davitch in the opening pages of Back When We Were Grownups. At 53, this perpetually agreeable widow is wide and soft and dimpled, with two short wings of dry, fair hair flaring almost horizontally from a center part. Given her role as the matriarch of a large family--and the proprietress of a party-and-catering concern, the Open Arms--Rebecca is both personally and professionally inclined toward jollity. But at an engagement bash for one of her multiple stepdaughters, she finds herself questioning everything about her life: How on earth did I get like this? How? How did I ever become this person who's not really me? n nShe spends the rest of the novel attempting to answer these questions--and trying to resurrect her older, extinguished self. Should she take up the research she began back in college on Robert E. Lee's motivation for joining the Confederacy? More to the point, should she take up with her college sweetheart, who's now divorced and living within easy striking range? None of these quick fixes pans out exactly as Rebecca imagines. What she emerges with is a kind of radiant resignation, best expressed by 100-year-old Poppy on his birthday: There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. A tautology, perhaps, but Tyler's delicate, densely populated novel makes it stick. n nYes, Poppy. There are also characters named NoNo, Biddy, and Min Foo--the sort of saccharine roll call that might send many a reader scampering in the opposite direction. But Tyler knows exactly how to mingle the sweet with the sour, and in Back When We Were Grownups she manages this balancing act like the old pro she is. Even the familiar backdrop--shabby-genteel Baltimore, which resembles a virtual game preserve of Tylerian eccentrics--seems freshly observed. Can any human being really resist this novel? It is, to quote Rebecca, a report on what it was like to be alive, and an appealingly accurate one to boot. --James Marcus --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. n nFrom Publishers Weekly nOn the first page of Tyler's stunning new novel, Rebecca Davitch, the heroine (and heroine is exactly the right word) realizes that she has become the wrong person. No longer the serene and dignified young woman she was at 20, at 53 Rebecca finds she has become family caretaker and cheerleader, a woman with a style of dress edging dangerously close to Bag Lady. So she tries to do something about it. In the midst of her busy life as mother, grandmother and proprietor of the family business, the Open Arms (she hosts parties in the family's old Baltimore row house), Rebecca attempts to pick up the life she was leading before she married, back when she felt grownup. She visits her hometown in Virginia, locates the boyfriend she jilted and renews her intellectual interests. But as Rebecca ponders the life-that-might-have-been, the reader learns about the life-that-was. At 20, she left college and abandoned her high school sweetheart to marry a man who already had a large family to support. A year later, she had a baby of her own; five years later, her husband died in an auto accident, and she was left to raise four daughters, tend to her aging uncle-in-law and support them all. And a difficult lot they are, seldom crediting Rebecca for holding her rangy family together. Yet like all of Tyler's characters, they are charming in their dysfunction. And much as one feels for Rebecca, much as one wants her to find love, it's difficult to imagine her leaving or upsetting the family order. Tyler (The Accidental Tourist; Breathing Lessons) has a gift for creating endearing characters, but readers should find Rebecca particularly appealing, for despite the blows she takes, she bravely keeps on trying. Tyler
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Anne Tyler Cuando Eramos Mayores = Back When We Were Grownups (Spanish Edition)
Aguilar 8420464422 / 9788420464428 PAPERBACK Fine
8420464422 Editorial Reviews n nProduct Description nRebecca discovers she has turned into the wrong person. At age 53, she realizes that she needs to gain ownership of her future regardless of what her family thinks. She goes back to school, joins a gym, and decides to open doors from her past that she thought she had forever closed. In this novel, Tyler speaks about the value of memories and the immense courage it takes to re-write a life. n nDescription in spanish: Aunque las patas de gallo ya crezcan junto a sus hermosos ojos, aunque decenas de familiares -hijas, hijastras, nietos y tíos- aseguren que ya no queda tiempo para emprender un nuevo camino, Rebecca se resiste a convertirse para siempre en una persona que no es ella. Ya no le basta con reinventar la cocina tradicional en su salón de banquetes o cuidar de niños que nunca la llamarán abuela. n nRebecca necesita adueñarse de su futuro. Y retoma los estudios que abandonó el día de su matrimonio, se apunta a un gimnasio, compra ropa interior de seda, se atreve a descolgar el teléfono y a marcar un número que creía olvidado. n nAnne Tyler, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y legítima heredera de la gran tradición de narradores sureños norteamericanos, nos habla en esta novela sobre el valor de los recuerdos y el inmenso coraje que se precisa para volver a escribir toda una vida.
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Tyler, Anne Digging to America
Random House UK 0099507420 / 9780099507420 PERFECT_PAPERBACK Fair
0099507420 Kurzbeschreibung nIn einer Nacht im Jahre 1997 kommen zwei adoptierte koreanische Babys in Baltimore an. Es ist der Beginn der schillernden Geschichte zweier grundverschiedener Familien, die fortan jedes Jahr zusammen den Tag der Ankunft feierniSparkling
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Anne Tyler Propios Y Extranos/ Digging to America (Spanish Edition)
Alfaguara 8420470422 / 9788420470429 PAPERBACK Very Good
8420470422 Editorial Reviews n nProduct Description nIn what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Pulitzer-prize winner Anne Tyler gives us a story brimming with observations that cast a penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives. It looks at the promises and perils of the American Dream and the knotty, layered relationship that can develop between native-born Americans and more recent immigrants intent on making their way through the often baffling byways of the New World. Description in Spanish: "Los Yazdan no pueden tener hijos y deciden adoptar una niña coreana. Lo mismo les sucede a los Donaldson. Las raÃces iranÃes de una familia contrastan con el espÃritu americano de la otra, sin embargo, ambas entablarán una relación de amistad en torno a las dos niñas. Con la sensibilidad, agudeza y cercanÃa que caracterizan su prosa, Anne Tyler, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, demuestra una vez más en esta novela su extraordinaria capacidad para descubrir las grietas invisibles de la vida cotidiana, y saca a la luz los problemas culturales que puede tener una sociedad aparentemente perfecta.
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Anne Tyler Searching For Caleb
Berkley 042506137X / 9780425061374 PAPERBACK Very Good
042506137X Book Description nOne of eight Anne Tyler novels reissued in September 2008 with stunning new jackets in the new series style --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. n nInside Flap Copy nMagic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel. n nTHE BOSTON GLOBE n nDuncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots...to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one.... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Anne Tyler The Amateur Marriage: A Novel
Alfred A. Knopf 1400042070 / 9781400042074 Hardcover Very Good
1400042070 Amazon Review nAnne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage is not so much a novel as a really long argument. Michael is a good boy from a Polish neighborhood in Baltimore; Pauline is a harum-scarum, bright-cheeked girl who blows into Michael's family's grocery store at the outset of World War II. She appears with a bloodied brow, supported by a gaggle of girlfriends. Michael patches her up, and neither of them are ever the same. Well, not the same as they were before, but pretty much the same as everyone else. After the war, they live over the shop with Michael's mother till they've saved enough to move to the suburbs. There they remain with their three children, until the onset of the sixties, when their eldest daughter runs away to San Francisco. Their marriage survives for a while, finally crumbling in the seventies. If this all sounds a tad generic, Tyler's case isn't helped by the characteristics she's given the two spouses. Him: repressed, censorious, quiet. Her: voluble, emotional, romantic. Mars, meet Venus. What marks this couple, though, and what makes them come alive, is their bitter, unproductive, tooth-and-nail fighting. Tyler is exploring the way that ordinary-seeming, prosperous people can survive in emotional poverty for years on end. She gets just right the tricks Michael and Pauline play on themselves in order to stay together: How many times, Pauline asks herself, when she was weary of dealing with Michael, had she forced herself to recall the way he'd looked that first day? The slant of his fine cheekbones, the firming of his lips as he pressed the adhesive tape in place on her forehead. Only in antogonism do Michael and Pauline find a way to express themselves. --Claire Dederer n nFrom Publishers Weekly nBecause Tyler writes with scrupulous accuracy about muddled, unglamorous suburbanites, it is easy to underestimate her as a sort of Pyrex realist. Yes, Tyler intuitively understands the middle class's Norman Rockwell ideal, but she doesn't share it; rather, she has a masterful ability to make it bleed. Her latest novel delineates, in careful strokes, the 30-year marriage of Michael Anton and Pauline Barclay, and its dissolution. In December 1941 in St. Cassians, a mainly Eastern European conclave in Baltimore, 20-year-old Michael meets Pauline and is immediately smitten. They marry after Michael is discharged from the army, but their temperaments don't mix. For Michael, self-control is the greatest of virtues; for Pauline, expression is what makes us human. She is compulsively friendly, a bad hider of emotions, selfish in her generosity (my homeless man) and generous in her selfishness. At Pauline's urging, the two move to the suburbs, where they raise three children, George, Karen and Lindy. Lindy runs away in 1960 and never comes back-although in 1968, Pauline and Michael retrieve Pagan, Lindy's three-year-old, from her San Francisco landlady while Lindy detoxes in a rehab community that her parents aren't allowed to enter. Michael and Pauline got married at a time when the common wisdom, expressed by Pauline's mother, was that marriages were like fruit trees.... Those trees with different kinds of branches grafted onto the trunks. After a time, they meld, they grow together, and... if you tried to separate them you would cause a fatal wound. They live into an era in which the accumulated incompatibilities of marriage end, logically, in divorce. For Michael, who leaves Pauline on their 30th anniversary, divorce is redemption. For Pauline, the divorce is, at first, a tragedy; gradually, separation becomes a habit. A lesser novelist would take moral sides, using this story to make a didactic point. Tyler is much more concerned with the fine art of human survival in changing circumstances. The range and power of this novel should not only please Tyler's immense readership but also awaken us to the collective excellency of her career. nCopyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Anne Tyler The Clock Winder
Berkley 0425099024 / 9780425099025 PAPERBACK Good
0425099024 Product Description nHaving sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons have a reputation for craziness, there are seven adult children, and Elizabeth finds herself drawn into their disorderly lives against her will. But in the end it is hard to tell whether she is a victim of the needy Emersons, or the de facto ruler of the family. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. n nFrom the Inside Flap nMrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don't have to be a perfect match to work. n nAnne Tyler is a magical writer. n nLOS ANGELES TIMES n nFrom the Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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