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“TO READ A NOVEL BY ANNE TYLER IS TO FALL IN LOVE.”
—People
“Anne Tyler is a wise and perceptive writer with a warm understanding of human foible.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“All of Tyler’s novels are wonderful.”
—Newsweek
“One of the most beguiling and mesmerizing writers in America.”
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Not merely good . . . She is wickedly good!”
—John Updike
“A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . A very funny writer. . . Not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.”
—Newsweek
“Tyler’s characters have character: quirks, odd angles of vision, colorful mean streaks and harmonic longings.”
—Time
“Her people are triumphantly alive.”
—The New York Times
“Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place.”
—Newsweek
Book Description
Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager with a distant father and hours and hours of silence to fill. Then one night she hears local rock singer Drumstrings Casey on the radio—and becomes instantly attracted to his cool, motionless voice. Evie learns that Drumstrings frequently plays at a dingy roadhouse called The Unicorn. So she goes there and, with an uncharacteristically bold gesture, bursts out of her lonely shell—and into the attentive gaze of an intangible man who becomes all too real. . . .
A Slipping-Down Life
A Slipping-Down Life,Anne Tyler,Ballantine Books,0345478142,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Psychological,Sagas,Fiction / Literary
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