A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family.

Anne Tyler is one of my favourite writers and this is a delicious bookIt is like being with a dear old friend. It is very special
Anne Tyler is the most natural of novelist... I know no other novelist who draws so directly from real life, and whose work remains so uncontaminated by the shortcuts and cliches of television and Hollywood... A Spool of Blue Thread may be her best yet * Daily Mail *
One of the most accomplished writers working today... A must-read * Good Housekeeping *
Exquisite * The Times *
Her terrain is the family, and the micro-interactions between both its members and interlopers from without; her tone is superficially uncomplicated, her insights culmulative, her mode of realist fiction essentially conventional... its power derives from the restless depths beneath its unfractured surface * Guardian *
Perfects the intimate, easy style that makes reading her such a pleasure * Metro *
When it comes to painting a loving, funny and yet never simplistic portrait of American family life, Anne Tyler is, and always has been, the great mistress * Financial Times *
Deftly written with skilful characterisation... A master of conversation * Daily Express *
A rich and perceptive examination of uneven family relationships * Yorkshire Post *
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 *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780099598480
ISBN 10	0099598485
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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