Morgan's Passing
$19.23
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
4 October 1991
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 funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an outsider.
Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit. He likes to pretend to be other people - a jockey, a shipping magnate, a foreign art dealer - and he likes to do this more a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099527206 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099527200 |
| Author: | Anne Tyler |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 4 October 1991 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Arena |
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Critics Review
Enchanting
Enchanting * The Times *
Tyler writes stunningly well * Daily Telegraph *
Tyler has created a world of imaginary people who are as tangible and as real as one’s own friends and relatives * New York Times *
Alternatively lyrical and rambunctiously comic * Washington Post *
An almost flawless story of love… Moran emerges as a true hero * Los Angeles Times *
Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good
Pure magic, a contemporary fairy tale that overflows with affection, mystery and laughter * Washington Star *
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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