The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler

The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel about loss and recovery, pierced throughout with her humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles.

Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron grew up fending off a sister who constantly wanted to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, an outspoken, independent young woman, she's like a breath of fresh air. He marries her without hesitation, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. Aaron works at his family's vanity-publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy's unexpected appearances from the dead--in their house, on the roadway, in the market--help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Gradually, Aaron discovers that maybe for this beginner there is indeed a way to say goodbye.

Like a modern Jane Austen, Tyler creates small worlds depicting] the intimate bonds of friendship and family.--USA Today

An absolute charmer of a novel . . . With sparkling prose . . . Anne] Tyler gets at the beating heart of what it means to lose someone, to say goodbye.--The Boston Globe

Classic Tyler . . . The wonder of Anne Tyler is how consistently clear-eyed and truthful she remains about the nature of families and especially marriage.--Los Angeles Times

Beautifully intricate . . . By the exquisitely romantic emotional climax an] ordinary life has bloomed into an opera.--Entertainment Weekly

Don't miss the conversation between Anne Tyler and Robb Forman Dew at the back of the book.

Anne Tyler grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, after being born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, and this is her twentieth. She is an American Academy of Arts and Letters member. She resides in the city of Baltimore, Maryland.

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ISBN 13	9780307957276
ISBN 10	0307957276
Title	The Beginner's Goodbye
Author	Anne Tyler
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Knopf Publishing Group
Year published	2012-04-03
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.