A Spool of Blue Thread: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2015
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE.
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...'
This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and red fell in love that summer's day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.
From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red's father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red's grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century - four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home...
Anne Tyler's books are family stories, deceptively gentle, and yet she gets right to the heart of the good and the bad, how each member subtly reacts to the others, and shows all the deep antagonistic emotions which all families try to bury. Judy Finnigan
Modern family life, eh? Oh yes, Tyler gets it perfectly. This is a wise, humorous and loving book. A joy, in fact. Richard Madeley
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- Contributor: Anne Tyler
- Imprint: Vintage
- ISBN13: 9780099598480
- Number of Pages: 480
- Packaged Dimensions: 129x198x28mm
- Packaged Weight: 330
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Release Date: 2015-09-03
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: 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.
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