Anne Tyler is back! With a companion piece to her huge bestseller A Spool of Blue Thread -- shortlisted for the Booker and Bailey's, Richard & Judy pick, Waterstones Book of the Month
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 Grownups, A
Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool
of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl, Clock Dance and Redhead by the Side
of the Road.
In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994
she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest
novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times
Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread
was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys
Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.
If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?
*BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour*
One of our greatest living fiction writers and if I was in charge,
she'd have a Nobel by now
*Observer*
Brims with the qualities that have brought her legions of fans and
high critical acclaim. Characters pulse with lifelikeness. The tone
flickers between humorous relish and sardonic shrewdness. Dialogue
crackles with authenticity. Beneath it all is an insistence that
it's never too soon to recognise how quickly life can speed by and
never too late to make vitalising changes
*Sunday Times*
How does she do it? Her style is deceptively simple. Even though
she performs narrative cartwheels that would lead other novelists
to be praised as experimental... she does it with such ease that it
seems closer to life than to art. it is almost as though we are
there to witness time passing, and people changing
*Mail on Sunday*
A writer sharp-eyed as a butcher-bird, skewering complacency... an
immensely funny writer... a quiet writer, in that much of her skill
goes toward the excision of anything that reminds the reader they
are reading
*Sunday Telegraph*
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