A Patchwork Planet - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Tyler, Anne

ISBN 10: 037540256X / ISBN 13: 9780375402562

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998

About this Item

A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; Anne Tyler's story of Barnaby Gaitlin, a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order ; 8vo; [x], 287, [7] pages.

Seller Inventory # 18146

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Patchwork Planet - 1st Edition/1st Printing
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037540256X
• ISBN 13: 9780375402562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Collection Starter::Hundred Dollars or Less
  • Author Collections::Tyler, Anne
  • Fiction::Novels
  • First Editions
  • By Year Of Issue::1990s

About this title

Synopsis

In this, her fourteenth 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 mementos.
        But for eleven 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 Gaitlins (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.

About the Author

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis in 1941 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated at nineteen from Duke University, and went on to do graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Tyler is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore.