The Tin Can Tree
$26.08
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
2 June 1989
Summary
A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time.
Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler’s classic exploration of the impact of grief on a family.
When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099337003 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099337002 |
| Author: | Anne Tyler |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 1989 |
| Weight: | 152g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Arena Books |
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Critics Review
A wholly individual writer of considerable stature
A wholly individual writer of considerable stature * Sunday Telegraph *
Her touch is deft, her perceptions keen, her ear for speech phenomenal. Her people are triumphantly alive * New York Times *
Miss Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredictability of seemingly everyday lives…She is a wholly individual writer and one of considerable stature * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Anne Tyler
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.
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