A Spool of Blue Thread

Tyler, Anne

ISBN 10: 0701189517 / ISBN 13: 9780701189518

Published by Chatto and Windus,, 2015

About this Item

Hardback. Novel. 358pp. Reprint. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015 Short closed tear to lower edge of dust jacket else very clean, bright and neat. Near fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket Near fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Spool of Blue Thread
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus,
• Publication Date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0701189517
• ISBN 13: 9780701189518
• Binding: Hardback
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread is a family saga to lose yourself in.

Review

An Amazon Best Book of the Month for February 2015: It’s pretty clear that Anne Tyler is comfortable with the art of storytelling. From the first lines of A Spool of Blue Thread, there’s an urge to sit back and settle into the cadence of her words. Or, rather, Abby Whitshank’s words as she recounts the story of how she fell in love with Red Whitshank in 1959. But don’t get too comfortable. Anne Tyler understands that, despite their best intentions, family members don’t often let each other settle back for very long—and the Whitshanks, a Baltimore clan whose history is told through several generations in this sensitive and empathetic novel, is no different than most. As Abby and Red age, their children are drawn back to their sprawling house. When the second part of the novel moves back in time, the shift is jarring at first; but after a fifty year writing career (this is her 20th novel), Tyler has the end in sight. This is a book about the stories we tell each other and the little moments that make up our lives. – Chris Schluep