"Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place."
NEWSDAY
Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....
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Review:
"Wickedly good" (John Updike)
"Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age" (Allison Pearson, Daily Mail)
"Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate" (Guardian)
Book Description:
From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. A Slipping Down Life is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler’s books in striking new backlist style
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- PublisherIvy Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0804108862
- ISBN 13 9780804108867
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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