'Wickedly good' John Updike
In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she manages to meet him, she bursts out of her lonely shell and their two lives become unforgettably entwined.
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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.
Title: A Slipping Down Life
Author: Anne Tyler
ISBN: 9780099517504
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 1990-11-15
Number of Pages: 176
Weight: 0.1588 kg
Wickedly good * John Updike *
Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age * Allison Pearson, Daily Mail *
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Wickedly good * John Updike *
Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age * Allison Pearson, Daily Mail *