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?OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD`She's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor `One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty`She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan `Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve`My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby `A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks `Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good' John Updike`I love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner `Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty
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"It is difficult to imagine a writer so prodigiously gifted" (Herald)
"Another winner from Anne Tyler" (Independent)
"Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page...scintillating with joie de vivre" (Sunday Times)
"Utterly compelling...wonderfully satisfying...virtually flawless" (Chicago Tribune)
"Anne Tyler is a writer of immaculate delicacy" (Observer)
From the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and The Accidental Tourist
On a beach holiday, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in swimsuit and beachrobe, walks away from her family and just keeps on walking...
'Every scene breathes with intimacy.Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page. Ladder of Years ruefully contemplates the unhaltable passage of time.But, scintillating with joie de vivre, it also offers an intensely appealing way of passing it' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
'Anne Tyler's novels have three qualities that make them special: they are funny, they are sad, they are intelligent'
Nick Hornby
'Dialogue tope-rate, people alive to the fingertips, places as real as next door - you don't get a finer comedy of manners than this'
David Hughes, Mail on Sunday
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 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 Wilson. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Artikel-Nr. GOR000090126
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