A Spool of Blue Thread
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A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Clock Dance comes the story of four generations unfolding in and around the lovingly worn house that has always been the Whitshank family's anchor. * MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE"Absorbing and deeply satisfying." --Entertainment Weekly
"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon ..." This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959.
From Red's parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, the Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets.
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 | 9780553394399 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553394398 |
| Title | A Spool of Blue Thread |
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2016-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize 2015, Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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