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Era uno splendido pomeriggio tutto giallo e verde..." Sempre con queste parole Abby Whitshank inizia a raccontare di quel giorno, nel lontano luglio del 1959, in cui si innamorò di Red, sotto il grande portico di legno che occupa tutta la facciata della casa dove avrebbero cresciuto i loro quattro figli. La casa di famiglia, orgoglio del padre di Red, arrivato a Baltimora negli anni Venti per poi fare carriera come costruttore, ha visto avvice...

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Aaron, giovane vedovo ancora sconvolto dalla perdita della moglie Dorothy, comincia a riceverne le visite. Per strada, al mercato, al lavoro, Dorothy lo affianca silenziosa nei mesi del lutto. Per Aaron, balbuziente, leggermente zoppicante, soffocato per tutta la vita dalle attenzioni di donne troppo premurose - dalla madre apprensiva alla sorella invadente, alle fidanzate votate più ad assisterlo che ad amarlo - l'incontro con Dorothy era sta...

Cómo todo final es un nuevo principio.Lian Pennywell es un sexagenario que acaba de perder su trabajo. Lejos de entristecerse por algo que nunca le interesó realmente, lo toma como una señal. Es justo lo que necesita para adentrarse en la última fase de su vida, en la que poder recapitular y prepararse para el final. Entusiasmado por primera vez en años, decide mudarse a un apartamento más sencillo y acorde con su nueva vida. Sin embargo, en s...

Reissued with new jacket design. Original edition has sold 268, 000 copies to date.

Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night. NOAH'S COMPASS is about memory and its loss, about incidents and relationships which open up sight lines into a painful past long dead for a man who becomes awa...

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Includes an author interview and discussion questions.

Anne Tyler writes like an angel." -USA Today In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, while Mr. Pike maintains a forced stoicism. Only their ten-year-old, Simon, seems able to acknowledge that their world has changed. He just doesn't understand why. The Pikes may choose to stand still, to hide from an unnameable past, but the strange shroud over their ho...

An early triumph from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and Saint Maybe. Duncan Peck is a restless man, constantly moving his family. His wife Justine is a fortune teller. Her grandfather is on a quest for the brother he lost in 1912. Soon, all three of them will journey back to the family's deepest roots. Previous publisher: Avon paperback.

Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place."NEWSDAYEvie 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....

An almost flawless story of love...Morgan emerges as a true hero."LOS ANGELES TIMESMorgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets two lovely young newlyweds under some rather extreme circumstances--and all three discover that no one's heart is safe....

A triumph."HARPERSBen Joe Hawkes is a worrier. Raised by his mother, grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters, he's always felt the outsider. When he learns that one of his sisters has left her husband, he heads for home and back into the confusion of childhood memories and unforseen love....

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