From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. A Patchwork Planet is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and many other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Saint Maybe, Ladder of Years, A Patchwork Planet, Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America and The Beginner's Goodbye. 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, which recognises a lifetime's achievement in books. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, Vinegar Girl, is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew.
David Morse's reading in a calm, even tone reflects the unruffled attitude of the central character in this story. After getting into trouble early in his young adult life, and subsequently paying for his crime, Barney Gaitlin has achieved a level of fulfillment working with senior citizens. Unfortunately, he is perceived by most of his family and friends as a failure, not having attained a college education nor a high-paying position in a high-profile profession. In a relationship with Sophia Maynard, he tries to find a greater level of stability, partly to create a more suitable atmosphere in which to establish closer ties with his young daughter. Tyler's (The Ladder of Years, Audio Reviews, LJ 8/96) characters are real people recognizable in one's own circle of acquaintances. The bonds and tensions arising among family members are readily understandable. A definite recommendation for academic and public library fiction collections.‘Catherine Swenson, Norwich Univ., VT
Tyler is a masterly writer whose love stories make you think as
well as feel. -- Sebastian Faulks
I was bowled over...I finished the book wishing it had been twice
as long -- Jeremy Paxman
I can think of no other writer whose novels I look forward to with
such gleeful anticipation. A Patchwork Planet is her
fourteenth book, but were it for fortieth, it would not be enough
for me... A delight from beginning to end * Observer *
Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically
alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate... [A Patchwork
Planet] is charming, readable, and more full of touching and
humane observations than many other novels you will read this year
* Guardian *
A Patchwork Planet is thoroughly enjoyable...from this most
responsive novel * Sunday Times *
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