Back When We Were Grownups

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "A WONDERFUL NÖVEL . . . Tylers eye and ear for familial give and take is unerring, her humanhy irresistible. You ll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last." -People (Page Turner of the Week) "STUNNING... 'Onceuponatime,' the stoiybegins, 'there was a womanwho discovered she had turnéd into the wrong person.1. . . With Rebecca Davitch, Tyler has created a eharacter who is brave enough to look back on her life and to imagine herself making different kinds of choices. Brave enough to wonder what honesty looks like, whether there is ever really a single distillation of self that is unshakable and true . . . Anne Tyler has a talent for spinning out characters . . . who go on living long after their stories end." -The Baltimore Sun ffHer characters endear themselves to the reader with their candor and their wit and their simple decency. . . . The charm of an Anne Tyler növel lies in the clarily of her... Tovább

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "A WONDERFUL NÖVEL . . . Tylers eye and ear for familial give and take is unerring, her humanhy irresistible. You ll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last." -People (Page Turner of the Week) "STUNNING... 'Onceuponatime,' the stoiybegins, 'there was a womanwho discovered she had turnéd into the wrong person.1. . . With Rebecca Davitch, Tyler has created a eharacter who is brave enough to look back on her life and to imagine herself making different kinds of choices. Brave enough to wonder what honesty looks like, whether there is ever really a single distillation of self that is unshakable and true . . . Anne Tyler has a talent for spinning out characters . . . who go on living long after their stories end." -The Baltimore Sun ffHer characters endear themselves to the reader with their candor and their wit and their simple decency. . . . The charm of an Anne Tyler növel lies in the clarily of her prose and the wisdom of her observations." -The Washington Post Book World "RESEMBLES JANE AUSTEN'S PERSUASION IN THAT ITS A NÖVEL ABOUT SECOND CHANCES . . . The tension that keeps the narrative alive is our desire for Rebecca to get the recognition and respect that we know she deserves from her family, and from herself. It's always good to have a character to root for." -San Jose Mercury News 'Maybe there's something glorious to be said, after all, for companionship, common cause, and sanctuaiy. And what there is to say, Anne Tyler has been sayingfor decades, with gravity and grace." -The New York Times Book Review Vissza