Anne Tyler
Hardcover | Pages: 358 pages Rating: 3.41 | 77837 Users | 9436 Reviews
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| Original Title: | A Spool of Blue Thread |
| ISBN: | 0385683421 (ISBN13: 9780385683425) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Maryland(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2015), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2015), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2016), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2015), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2017) |
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A freshly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel from Anne Tyler"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. 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, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor.
Brimming with all the insight, humour, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler's work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish.
Details Out Of Books A Spool of Blue Thread
| Title | : | A Spool of Blue Thread |
| Author | : | Anne Tyler |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 358 pages |
| Published | : | February 10th 2015 by Bond Street Books |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Audiobook. Literary Fiction |
Rating Out Of Books A Spool of Blue Thread
Ratings: 3.41 From 77837 Users | 9436 ReviewsAppraise Out Of Books A Spool of Blue Thread
4.5 stars This book was such a pleasant surprise. I almost didnt read it, not for any particular reason other than it just didnt sound that interesting to me. But Id heard alright reviews and after it being longlisted for the Man Booker prize this year I decided to give it a try. And wow, what a fantastic reading experience!I went the audiobook route for this one, and it was definitely worth it. Its about 13 hours long, but it just breezed by. Kimberly Farr narrates and does a fantastic job atThis was one of the most beautifully written stories I've read for a long time! It was my first book by Anne Tyler, and it was one of those books that makes me want to immediately go out and get all of her other books. If they're anything like "A Spool of Blue Thread", they are masterpieces! This is a very simple piece of literary fiction that focuses on its characters and their development. It is about a family of many members whom we gradually get to know. Anne Tyler has structured the
Anne Tyler has done here what she does best , describing perfectly these less than perfect , very ordinary people with their quirks , dramas , secrets and resentments as well as their love for each other . It is so realistic in so many ways. We are able to laugh at the funny and cry at the sad of it all because this family may remind us in some ways of our own or someone's that we know . Who doesn't know a family with a black sheep like Denny ? Who doesn't know what sibling resentments from the
When you finish a book in the early hours of the morning and suddenly start crying you know it's a good one! This just touched my heart in so many ways. "And time... Well you know about time. How slow it is when you're little and how it speeds up faster and faster once you're grown. Well now it's just a blur. I can't keep track of it anymore! But it's like time is sort of balanced. We're young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we're old
Excellent narration. A nice family saga told over three generations, one that I liked enough. Nuances such as the matriarch thinking her family are quite perfect and having to uphold appearances of the same were interesting. Are families perfect as they appear to be, is there any part of perfect at all? Stories of the oldest generation ending up married after a scandal - what a vixen - and younger generations being a bit screwed up and not knowing what life holds. Poor Denny! I thought for sure
Some time back, I learned this: you dont just open a book by Anne Tyler, you enter it. You get introduced to the characters, take up residence with them in their Baltimore neighborhoods, watch them muddle through their challenges and triumphs, and inevitably, feel as if youre saying a fond farewell to family members when you close the last page.Thats the beauty of Anne Tylers writing. Her characters are quirky, eccentric, and so achingly real that they could step off the page and seamlessly walk
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