Anne Tyler, Author . Knopf $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4207-4
Because Tyler writes with scrupulous accuracy about muddled, unglamorous suburbanites, it is easy to underestimate her as a sort of Pyrex realist. Yes, Tyler intuitively understands the middle class's Norman Rockwell ideal, but she doesn't...
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Anne Tyler. Random/Hogarth, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8041-4126-0
In the latest of Hogarth’s Shakespeare series, Pulitzer-winner Tyler transposes the famously shrewish Kate and her would-be master Petruchio to Tyler country—Baltimore’s genteel Roland Park neighborhood. There, preschool assistant Kate Battista...
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Anne Tyler, Author Knopf Publishing Group $18.95 (3p) ISBN 978-0-394-57234-5
In perhaps her most mainstream, accessible novel so far, Tyler spins a tale of marriage and middle-class lives, in an age when social standards and life expectations have gone askew. While she remains a brilliant observer of human nature, there is a
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Anne Tyler, Author Ivy Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1347-2
This novel of a housewife's escape spent 17 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (May)
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Anne Tyler, Author Ballantine Books $15 (352p) ISBN 978-0-449-91057-3
Tyler's latest, about a middle-aged woman who runs away from her husband and children and takes on a new life, spent 17 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Apr.)
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Anne Tyler, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44155-7
At 40, Delia Grinstead seems more likely to have an attack of anxiety, or of whimsy, than to become a runaway wife. Yet, in Tyler's 13th beguiling novel, Delia's impulse to escape her disapproving physician husband and three surly children turns...
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Anne Tyler, Author . Knopf $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-27240-9
Like Tyler's previous protagonists, Liam Pennywell is a man of unexceptional talents, plain demeanor, modest means and curtailed ambition. At age 60, he's been fired from his teaching job at a “second-rate private boys' school
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Anne Tyler, Author . Knopf $24.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-307-26394-0
Tyler (Breathing Lessons
) encompasses the collision of cultures without losing her sharp focus on the daily dramas of modern family life in her 17th novel. When Bitsy and Brad Donaldson and Sami and Ziba Yazdan both adopt Korean infant girls, their
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On the first page of Tyler's stunning new novel, Rebecca Davitch, the heroine (and heroine is exactly the right word) realizes that she has become the "wrong person." No longer the "serene and dignified young woman" she was at 20,
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Anne Tyler, read by Kirsten Potter. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 5 CDs, 6 hrs., $32 ISBN 978-0-451-48394-2
In the latest of Hogarth’s Shakespeare series, Pulitzer-winner Tyler transposes the famously shrewish Kate and her would-be master Petruchio to Tyler country: Baltimore’s genteel Roland Park neighborhood. This modern retelling has no big plot...
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Anne Tyler, Author, Blair Brown, Read by , read by Blair Brown. Random House Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3310-5
Blair Brown is one of those rare performers who can capture an author's voice to perfection. She's had plenty of practice performing audiobooks, including Linda Fairstein's Death Dance
. Her vibrant reading of Digging
manifests her...
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Anne Tyler, read by Kirby Heyborne. Random House Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 6.5 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-307-96914-9
In Tyler’s latest novel, a physically disabled man named Aaron is devastated when his wife, Dorothy, is killed in a freak accident. As he tries to pick up the pieces of his life, Dorothy begins to appear to him from beyond the grave. Narrator Kirby...
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Anne Tyler, Author, Judith B. Jones, Editor Alfred A Knopf Inc $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40361-6
Although Tyler ( Breathing Lessons ; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant ) is again writing about families--the way they cleave together in times of trouble and muddle through with stoic courage--her eminently satisfying new novel breaks her familiar...
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Anne Tyler, Author, Ann Tyler, Author, Mitra Modarressi, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-05497-0
Princess Molly the Messy belongs to a family of royal neatniks: King Clement the Clean, Queen Nellie the Neat and Prince Thomas the Tidy. Her room in the castle's tower is a much-lamented disaster, but when a flash flood drives the family from the...
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Anne Tyler. Knopf, $24.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-307-95727-6
In Tyler’s elegant 19th novel, Aaron is an editor at a vanity press with a crippled right arm and leg who thinks of himself as “unluckier but no unhappier” than anyone else. He meets Dorothy, a brisk, no nonsense doctor, while editing a medical tome,
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Anne Tyler. Knopf, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-101-87427-1
Thoroughly enjoyable but incohesive, Tyler’s latest chronicles the Whitshank family through several generations in Baltimore, Md. The narrative initially tackles the mounting tensions among the grown Whitshank siblings as their aging parents, Red...
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Anne Tyler. Knopf, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-52122-8
Pulitzer winner Tyler (following A Spool of Blue Thread) takes a bittersweet, hope-filled look at quirky families that have broken or are trying to recreate themselves. Plaintive Willa’s birth family—rebellious sister Elaine, long-suffering dad...
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Anne Tyler. Knopf, $25.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-525-65841-2
A fastidious everyman weathers a spate of relationship stresses in this compassionate, perceptive novel from Tyler (Clock Dance). Micah Mortimer, 43, makes house calls for his Tech Hermit business and moonlights as the superintendent of his...
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Anne Tyler. Knopf, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-32109-6
Tyler (Redhead by the Side of the Road) returns with a dry and well-crafted look at a family that inexplicably comes apart over several decades. Serena Drew, a 20-something Baltimore grad student traveling with her boyfriend, James, thinks she...
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Anne Tyler. Knopf, $27 (176p) ISBN 978-0-593-80348-6
Bestseller Tyler (French Braid) returns with another appealing story of an idiosyncratic family. The day before her only daughter’s wedding, 61-year-old Gail Baines learns she’s been passed over for a promotion at the private girls’ school where she
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