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A Slipping Down Life
A Slipping Down Life
paperback
Published:
15 November, 1990
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Description
Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's raw exploration of the power of youth and fate.
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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More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099517504 |
| ISBN10 | 0099517507 |
| Number Of Pages | 176 |
| Item Weight | 145 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 11 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
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 *
Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate * Guardian *
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 *
Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate * Guardian *
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 *
Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate * Guardian *
Funny and lyrical and true, exquisite in its details and ambitious in its design...rich...warm. The writer is not merely good, she is wickedly good
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Author's Bio
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, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid.
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.