Ladder of Years - Couverture rigide

Tyler, Anne

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 070116302X ISBN 13 : 9780701163020

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1995

Synopsis

One day, during a family seaside holiday, something which has already begun to fray quietly snaps. Delia simply walks off the beach, away from her husband, Sam, and her three almost grown-up children. In a nearby town, she reinvents herself as a serious and independent-minded woman without ties.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking away from it all" is not a premeditated act, but an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life . . . .
"TYLER DETAILS DELIA'S ADVENTURE WITH GREAT SKILL . . . As so often in her earlier fiction--Celestial Navigation, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and her nine other novels--[she] creates distinct characters caught in poignantly funny situations. . . .Tyler writes with a clarity that makes the commonplace seem fresh and the pathetic touching."
--The New York Times
"UTTERLY COMPELLING. . .WONDERFULLY SATISFYING. . .Ladder of Years is virtually flawless."
--Chicago Tribune
"A 'PAGE-TURNER' IN THE BEST SENSE . . . One wants to lightly caress the pages of the story because one cares for Ms. Tyler's touchingly flawed characters. . . . Both madcap and genteel, Anne Tyler knows as well as anyone that 'human beings lead many lives.' Casually, delightfully, Ladder of Years will tell you just how we humans manage this trick."
--The Baltimore Sun

Revue de presse

"It is difficult to imagine a writer so prodigiously gifted" (Herald)

"Another winner from Anne Tyler" (Independent)

"Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page...scintillating with joie de vivre" (Sunday Times)

"Utterly compelling...wonderfully satisfying...virtually flawless" (Chicago Tribune)

"Anne Tyler is a writer of immaculate delicacy" (Observer)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 070116302X
• ISBN 13: 9780701163020
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 326
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible