Earthly Possessions
$25.20
- Paperback
240 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.
‘A skilful novel by a writer in full flight from the obvious’ Observer
For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life’s earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour. But Charlotte is about to escape in a way she ne…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099463702 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099463709 |
| Author: | Anne Tyler |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 1989 |
| Weight: | 197g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Arena Books |
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Critics Review
Funny and moving
My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world, is Anne Tyler… Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive * Independent on Sunday *
Funny and moving * The Times *
A skilful novel by a writer in full flight from the obvious * Observer *
Wickedly good
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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