A Slipping-Down Life

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 'Wickedly good' John UpdikeIn a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. Zusammenfassung 'Wickedly good' John UpdikeIn a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anne Tyler
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.11.1990
• EAN: 9780099517504
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951750-4
• Pagine: 176
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Serie: ANNE TYLER; ANNE TYLER
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Coming of Age, North Carolina, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Southern, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century