âBeautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.â
âThe New York Times
âA book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.â
âThe Boston Globe
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimoreâs Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearlâs favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own.
Now Pearl and her three grown children have gathered together againâwith anger, hope, and a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.
âA novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.â
âNewsweek
âAnne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.â
âChicago Tribune
âIn her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.â
âJohn Updike, The New Yorker
âMarvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.â
âCosmopolitan
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Psychological
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Vintage
Author : Tyler, Anne
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :1996-08-27
Number Of Pages : 320
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0449911594
ISBN-13 : 9780449911594
Item weight : 0.6 lb
Dimensions : 0.9 in x 5.4 in x 8.3 in
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