French Braid

Anne Tyler

ISBN 10: 059332109X / ISBN 13: 9780593321096

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2022

About this Item

Near Fine in all regards, the only flaw being slightly rounded at the head and foot of the spine. "Signed first edition" sticker to the front. Signed by Anne Tyler on a tipped in leaf. Stated first edition. 244 pages. 6.5" x 9.25". True to Anne Tyler s style, French Braid (2022) follows one Baltimore family through multiple generations from the 1950s to the 2020s and how minute, innocuous occurrences inevitably reverberate longer and louder than one could predict. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: French Braid
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059332109X
• ISBN 13: 9780593321096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Printing
  • Signed
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild.

“A quietly subversive novel, tackling fundamental assumptions about womanhood, motherhood and female aging.” —The New York Times Book Review

The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.

Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close—yet how unknowable—every family is to itself.

About the Author

ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.