A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home.

Tyler's twentieth novel finds fresh fictional riches in imaginative territory she has been exploring for half a century.. Atmospherically rendered, the passage of time has both entertaining and heart-rending results. She has never written with more finesse, vitality and acuteness * Sunday Times, book of the year *
I love Tyler's writing... She writes so beautifully and with such insight. Read her books and she can actually change your view, change how you see the world -- Judy Finnigan * Mail on Sunday *
Exquisite * The Times *
Tyler's sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and impossible to duplicate -- Hanya Yanigihara * Observer, Books That Made Our Year 2015 *
The extraordinary thing about her writing is the extent to which she makes one believe every word, deed and breath -- Kate Kellaway * Guardian *

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 Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl, Clock Dance and Redhead by the Side of the Road.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781784701093
ISBN 10	1784701092
Title	A Spool of Blue Thread
Author	Anne Tyler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2015-09-03
Number of pages	480
Prizes	Short-listed for Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK), Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK), Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2017 (UK)
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