Ladder of Years - Softcover

Tyler, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099479419 ISBN 13: 9780099479413

Publisher: Vintage, 1996

Synopsis

One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going.

After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her?

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About this title

About the Author

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; 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. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

From the Back Cover

From the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and The Accidental Tourist

On a beach holiday, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in swimsuit and beachrobe, walks away from her family and just keeps on walking

Every scene breathes with intimacy.Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page. Ladder of Years ruefully contemplates the unhaltable passage of time.But, scintillating with joie de vivre, it also offers an intensely appealing way of passing it Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

Anne Tyler s novels have three qualities that make them special: they are funny, they are sad, they are intelligent
Nick Hornby

Dialogue tope-rate, people alive to the fingertips, places as real as next door you don t get a finer comedy of manners than this
David Hughes, Mail on Sunday

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099479419
• ISBN 13: 9780099479413
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448