Anne Tyler: 115 books

Il y a des blessures qui ne se referment jamais. Des silences qui pèsent et finissent par laisser des traces qu’aucun discours ne pourra réparer. Blessures, silences, déni : le trio fatal qui conduit à la destruction. Dans l’Amérique des années 1960, une famille sans histoire vit au rythme...

Daniel Peck est un vieux monsieur. Il vit avec sa nièce, Justine, cartomancienne exaltée, le mari de celle-ci, Duncan, éternel insatisfait, et leur fille, Meg, une adolescente douce et résignée de dix-sept ans. Mais Grand-père Peck n’a qu’une idée en tête : retrouver son frère Caleb,...

Als Liam Pennywell seinen Job verliert, beschließt der 60-Jährige, aus seinem Haus in eine Wohnung zu ziehen. Er hofft, dort Ruhe zu finden und auf sein Leben zurückblicken zu können. Doch dann kommt alles anders: Liam wird in der ersten Nacht in seinem neuen Heim überfallen. Als er am nächsten...

»Atemübungen« schildert einen einzigen Tag im Leben von Maggie und Ira Moran, beide sind um die fünfzig und seit achtundzwanzig Jahren ein Ehepaar. Am frühen Morgen steigen sie ins Auto, um Maggies bester Freundin bei der Beerdigung ihres Mannes beizustehen, sie haben eine lange Fahrt vor sich....

Anne Tyler nos leva a um romance sábio, assustador e profundamente tocante em que descreve um homem de meia-idade, desolado pela morte de sua esposa, que tem melhorado gradualmente pelas aparições frequentes da mulher — na casa deles, na estrada, no mercado. Com deficiência no braço e na perna...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  “More powerful and moving than anything [Tyler] has done.” —Los Angeles Times Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets and reckonings. ...

"Tyler is steadily raising a body of fiction of major dimensions." THE NEW YORK TIMES Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly...

‘Zo makkelijk kom je niet van Kate Battista af.’ Kate Battista zit klem. Hoe kan het dat het haar taak in het leven is om het huishouden te doen voor haar excentrieke vader, een wetenschapper, en haar mooi zusje Bunny? En dan heeft ze ook nog continu gedoe op haar werk. Ja, haar leerlingen zijn...

"BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION." The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To the best of her...

Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new and spare...

New York Times Bestseller Rich, tender, and searching, *Digging to America *challenges the notion that home is a fixed place, and celebrates the subtle complexities of life on all sides of the American experience. Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting for their baby...

"A triumph." HARPERS Ben Joe Hawkes is a worrier. Raised by his mother, grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters, he's always felt the outsider. When he learns that one of his sisters has left her husband, he heads for home and back into the confusion of childhood memories and unforseen love....

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE ** “It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . ” This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable...

"Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel."—The Boston Globe Through the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime era to the thumping, rocking beats of the 1970s, generations of Pecks have maintained a determined...