A Patchwork Planet

Anne Tyler

ISBN 10: 0099288036 / ISBN 13: 9780099288039

Editore: Quality Paperbacks Direct, 1999

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: A Patchwork Planet es una novela de Anne Tyler que narra la historia de Barnaby Gaitlin, un joven de Baltimore que trabaja como asistente para personas mayores. A pesar de provenir de una familia adinerada, Barnaby se siente como un bicho raro y busca su lugar en el mundo. La novela explora temas como la familia, la identidad y la búsqueda de la felicidad en la vida cotidiana. EAN: 9780099288039 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: A Patchwork Planet Autor: Anne Tyler Editorial: Vintage Idioma: en Páginas: 304 Formato: tapa blanda.

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• Titolo: A Patchwork Planet
• Editore: Quality Paperbacks Direct
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0099288036
• ISBN 13: 9780099288039
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Bueno

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Riassunto

Barnaby Gaitlin is a loser - just short of thirty he's the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family. Once upon a time he had a home, a loving wife, a little family of his own; now he has an ex-wife, a 9-year-old daughter with attitude, a Corvette Sting Ray that's a collectors item but unreliable, and he works as hired muscle for Rent-a-Back, doing heavy chores for old folks. He has an almost pathological curiosity about other people's lives, which has got him into serious trouble in the past, and a hopeles charm which attracts the kind of angelic woman who wants to save him from himself. Tyler's observation is more acute and more delicious than ever; her humour slyer and more irresistible; her characters so vividly realised that you feel you've known this quirky collection for ever. With perfect pitch and poise, humor and humanity, Anne Tyler chronicals, better than any writer today, the sublime and the rediculous of everyday living, the foibles and frailties of the ordinary human heart.

Informazioni sull?autore

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and many other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Saint Maybe, Ladder of Years, A Patchwork Planet, Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America and The Beginner's Goodbye.

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, which recognises a lifetime's achievement in books. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, Vinegar Girl, is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew.