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Ladder of Years
Anne Tyler
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Description for Ladder of Years
Paperback. One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going.
After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her?
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099479413
SKU
V9780099479413
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-98
About Anne Tyler
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.
Reviews for Ladder of Years
No one evokes the frustrations of marriage, family life and independence with such pinpoint accuracy as Tyler
Daily Mail
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
Daily Mail
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