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"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love." People MagazineCharlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery — and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate....From the Paperback edition.
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"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."
PEOPLE
Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery--and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate....
About the Author
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and many other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Saint Maybe, Ladder of Years, A Patchwork Planet, Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America and The Beginner's Goodbye. In 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English' and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognises a lifetime's achievement in books. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, Vinegar Girl, is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew.
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Earthly Possessions
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Chatto & Windus, London, 1977
ISBN 10: 070112234X
ISBN 13: 9780701122348
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Original Brown Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1977. [vi], 200pp. "In her new novel 'Earthly Possessions' Anne Tyler agan demonstrates the fine delicacy with which she mixes the funny and the moving, and the sureness of touch which enables her to shape so convincingly the extraordinary lives of her ordinary small-town citizens." There is some general shelf wear to the unclipped dust jacket covers. Both book and dust jacket are otherwise in excellent condition. All contents are tight and clean. There are no inscriptions. Seller Inventory # LitTyler01
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Earthly Possessions (First UK Edition, inscribed)
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
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First UK Edition. SIGNED on the title page: "Best wishes / Anne Tyler." Basis for the 1999 television movie starring Susan Sarandon, Stephen Dorff, and Elisabeth Moss. Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Publisher's price sticker on the bottom of the front flap. Seller Inventory # 168925
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ISBN 13: 9780701122348
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Brown cloth, gilt stamped titles, 12mo, 200 pages, signed by Anne Tyler on title page; a well kept copy; price clipped dust jacket now in protective mylar. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # CS00212