Ladder of Years
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Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
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? **ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE** 'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce 'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali 'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks 'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline WilsonIt is difficult to imagine a writer so prodigiously gifted * Herald *
Another winner from Anne Tyler * Independent *
Every scene breathes with intimacyLifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page…scintillating with joie de vivre * Sunday Times *
Utterly compelling…wonderfully satisfying...virtually flawless * Chicago Tribune *
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780099479413 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099479419 |
| Title | Ladder of Years |
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1996-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 1996 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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