Walker anne author (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first trade edition. Book with minor wear, else in fine condition; dust jacket with two small chips to upper spine/corner and light shelf wear, else fine. Diana Walker (Author photo); Carol Devine Carson and Chip Kidd (Jacket design); John Collier (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 154 pages. 6.00x0.39x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 152 pages. 6.00x0.38x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 252 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Fourth printing [stated]. [6], 311, [3] pages. DJ has some wear and is in a plastic sleeve. Small hinge tear at rear board. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: for Harold Herman with best wishes. Anne Tyler. This book possibly belonged to the Harold Herman who was Shenandoah Conservatory's Distinguished Professor Emeritus Of Theatre And Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (SSMT) Founder And Artistic Director Emeritus. Morgan's Passing won the 1980 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction and was nominated for both the American Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Anne Tyler (October 25, 1941) is a novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-three novels, including Morgan's Passing (1980), Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). The last three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020. She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her "brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail", her "rigorous and artful style", and her "astute and open language." Tyler has been compared to John Updike, Jane Austen, and Eudora Welty, among others. Derived from a Kirkus review: You could say Morgan was a man who'd gone to pieces. . . maybe he'd arrived unassembled." Yes, this is the odyssey of fortyish Morgan Gowerâ"and in the soft muddle of Morgan's familial netting and his calls to freedom, Tyler again finds both warmth and a certain hard coherence. Manager (in name only) of a run-down hardware store and trapped within his Baltimore household webâ"cheerfully sloppy wife Bonnie, seven industriously dull daughters, a senile mother, an addled sisterâ"Morgan buzzes noisily but to little effect. He's not a "temperate person." He dribbles ashes, fiddles with his beard, and scatters himself through half-baked projects, varied identities, assorted wardrobes. But then Morgan enters the lives of young puppeteers Emily and Leon Meredith: he first meets them when there's a call for "a doctor in the house"â"and Morgan pops up to deliver Emily's baby daughter on the spot, posing as "Dr. Morgan." And a year later, his home life withering, Morgan begins to spy, fascinated, on the Merediths, envying their "austerity, certitude, their mapped and charted lives." Then, in an antic confrontation, "Dr. Morgan" confesses his impersonation, but Emily understands "he has to get out of his life sometimes," and soon Morgan's love for Emily blinks on like a desert sunrise. Will romance bloom? Yes, eventually. Emily (product of a stifling past) begins to find Leon too rigid and buttoned-in, an affair commences, Emily becomes pregnant, Morgan elatedly arranges their respective separations from spousesâ"and the two leave Baltimore with baby and puppets, Morgan taking the name of Meredith. As far as wife Bonnie is concerned (and hence the title) Morgan has "passed on" from his real selfâ"she places a maliciously playful obituary in the local paper. But Morgan can only, in a final summing-up, feel sure that "it matters who you love and why." The Tyler trademarksâ"surface warmth and humor with a cutting undertowâ"again on impressive, irresistible display. John Leonard of The New York Times said, "Morgan, like a novelist, wants to be everybody else in order to look at himself through innocent eyes, to be charmed.Miss Tyler, witty, civilized, curious, with her radar ears and her quill pen dipped on one page in acid and on the next in orange liqueur, is asking whether art is adequate to the impersonations life insists on, death absolves. She is a wonderful writer." In The New York Review of Books, James Wolcott compared Tyler to a "sentry or a detective [who] seems to notice everything: the pale fluorescent gloom of laundromats, pockets filled with lint-covered jellybeans, the smell of crabcakes and coconut oil on a Delaware beach, grapy veins in the calves of middle-aged mothers. As a chronicler of domestic fuss, Tyler can be compared to John Updike.". Diana H. Walker (Author photograph) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Limited edition, 10/40. 12mo, unnumbered pages with laid in plates. In Very Good condition in Very Good portfolio and slipcase. Spine is green with gold print. Slipcase and portfolio boards in green cloth. Artist book: text block consists of 9 accordion-style folded pages of hemp paper with 4 mounted color etchings laid in. Signed in pencil by both the author and artist on the limited edition page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #4. 1405927. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Limited edition, collaborator copy II/V. Octavo, [11] unnumbered, unbound folded leaves. In Very Good minus condition in Good plus portfolio. Spine is blue with black print. Portfolio boards in blue cloth. Book cover is blue paper. Artist book: text block consists of 11 folded leaves of hemp paper with print and tipped in mounted color etchings with tissue guards on facing pages: slight ink bleeding through onto facing pages from illustrations. Signed in pencil by both the author and artist on the limited edition page. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1405926. FP New Rockville Stock.…