A major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author - a freshly observed,funny,joyful,brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family's foibles,from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today.
The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture far from home,but in some ways they have never been further apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter,which means less time keeping house for her husband,Robin. Their teenage daughters,steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily,could not have less in common. Their youngest,David,is already intent on escaping his family's orbit,for reasons none of them understands. Yet,as these lives advance across decades,the Garretts'influence on one another ripples unmistakably through each generation.
Full of heartbreak and hilarity,French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring,uncannily insightful novel bursting with warmth and humour that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives,the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us,and how close - yet how unknowable - every family is to itself.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781529115475Number of pages: 352Weight: 245 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
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Anne Tyler
An impeccable chronicler of the everyday lives of Middle America,author Anne Tyler grew up in a Quaker commune in the mountains of North Carolina,an experience,she says,that gave her,'that slight distance,so that I can look at the world as if I were a sociologist a little bit - I have that extra inch away from it.'A multiple Pulitzer Prize nominee (she won the prize in 1989 for Breathing Lessons) Tyler's novels are as popular as they are publically lauded,many of them set in Maryland,Baltimore where she now lives. Famously shy of publicity - she spent 40 years of her career without giving a single interview - Tyler is a prolific writer whose novels span half a decade. Her best-known works include: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant,The Accidental Tourist,Ladder of Years, Digging to America and A Spool of Thread.
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