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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 037540256X-11-20678188
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. In this, her 14th novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious memories. But for 11 years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on an even keel. Still, the Gaitlin's (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buying off Barnaby's former victims. And his ex-wife would just as soon he didn't show up ever to visit their little girl, Opal. Even the nice, steady woman (his guardian angel?) who seems to have designs on him doesn't fully trust him, it develops, when the chips are down, and it looks as though his world may fall apart again. There is no one like Anne Tyler, with her sharp, funny, tender perceptions about how human beings navigate on a puzzling planet, and she keeps us enthralled from start to finish in this delicious new novel. This book has rough deckled page edges. Seller Inventory # 1002
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Very fine, clean, crisp, new and unread first printing in fresh mustard boards, black spine with bright gilt titles, pristine dust jacket. Anne Tyler is a critically and commercially acclaimed writer and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons." ". Seller Inventory # 2152
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. RARE Advance Reader's Edition-Uncorrected Proof-Not For Sale. 1st Edition-Stated. New copy. Never read. Trade paperback format. BEAUTIFUL copy of book and cover. COLLECTOR'S COPY. Seller Inventory # 001062
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.09. Seller Inventory # Q-037540256X