The Clock Winder
$26.66
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
8 February 1989
Summary
A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time
‘Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age’ Daily Mail
Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons, with their seven adult children, have a reputation for craziness, and Elizabeth finds herself drawn into their disorderly lives …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099469605 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009946960X |
| Author: | Anne Tyler |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 1989 |
| Weight: | 281g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Arena Books |
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Critics Review
Delicate, unpretentious and highly enjoyable
Delicate, unpretentious and highly enjoyable * Daily Telegraph *
Tyler writes skilfully, with a detached air and a precise eye for detail * New Statesman *
She writes with virtuosity, confidence and perfect insight and compassion * The Times *
Anne Tyler is brilliant * New York Times Book Review *
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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