Tyler, Anne

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A pleasure to read
novel where nothing happens
Left me still thinking after I read it....
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Joining Cultural Tunnels to Head in New Directions

Digging to America
Anne Tyler
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0307263940
Release Date: 2006-05-02

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In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after
Thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”

Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport—the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian American wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate with an “arrival party,” an event that is repeated every year as the two families become more deeply intertwined.

Even independent-minded Maryam is drawn in. But only up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by one of the Donaldson clan, a good-hearted man of her vintage, recently widowed and still recovering from his wife’s death, suddenly all the values she cherishes—her traditions, her privacy, her otherness—are threatened. Somehow this big American takes up so much space that the orderly boundaries of her life feel invaded.

A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that cast a penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.</p>

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A pleasure to read.......2007-06-07

Ms. Tyler has done a nice job of weaving us a tale of an unlikely friendship, cultural considerations in America, tolerance and acceptance. To follow the journeys of these two little girls, from the airport to their new families, and then to their yearly reunions is a delightful framing of the story.

novel where nothing happens.......2007-05-19

I finished this book because I was urged to by people who had read and loved it, but the reason why is still beyond me. Nothing much happens in this book except a series of suburban dinner parties. Since there is no plot, some strength of characterization should have been necessary, but none of the characters are engaging and we don't get to know them very well. There are some sentences and scenes which are good and amusing descriptions of people's thoughts and conversations, but that's not enough to carry a book which was Reflets, numéro 2 : Méthode de français

Reflets, numéro 2 : Méthode de français

Reflets, numéro 2 : Méthode de français
Authors: Guy Capelle, Noëlle Gidon
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Release Date: 01 December, 1999
Publisher: Hachette français langue étrangère
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Et les stereotypes persistent, encore au 21eme siecle
Je suis franchement decu par cette methode qui se veut "moderne" (usage de Cd-Rom, video, etc) mais ne fait que propager les pires stereotypes que nous a legues le 19eme siecle. Les Parisiens sont coinces et stresses, les Meridionaux n'ont jamais d'autre chose a faire que de jouer aux boules tout en se racontant des commerages sur les nouveaux "intrus," (mais tout se resout a la fin lorsque les Parisiens font voir aux Meridionaux leur premier ordinateur!! Les Parisiens arrivent meme a prendre "l'acceng!") Et n'oublions pas l'Allemande blonde du premier chapitre qui (quoi de plus previsible?) travaille comme mannequin et parle avec un fort accent.
Les etudiants qui se serviront de ce livre n'auront vraisemblablement que peu de connaissances sur la France. Il faut se demander avant d'adopter ce livre quelles idees ils en tireront! La perspective qui a informe ce livre me semble plutot inquietante! Il n'est pas difficile (et cela coute beaucoup moins cher!) de trouver des textes/ extraits de films/ publicites/ etc. qui sont vraiment authentiques et qui montrent la vraie vie en France en se gardant bien de stereotyper des cultures que leurs auteurs/ realisateurs ne connaissent pas. La "methode" de REFLETS part d'une idee interessante mais fait voir, non pas les differentes cultures qui existent dans notre pays mais le genre d'attitude dont les dangers ont ete reveles lors des dernieres elections presidentielles....
Reflets 2 est formidable
J'utilise reflets 2 pour mes cours de francais et je dois dire que je trouve cette methode formidable. Les eleves sont beaucoup plus motives par cette methodes tres communicatives d'autant plus qu'ils vivent l'histoire a travers la video. Cela leur permet de se projetter en France, de comprendre non seulement le verbal mais aussi le non-verbal dans des situations socioculturelles authentiques puisqu'ils suivent l'histoire d'une famille qui vient s'installer dans le sud de la France pour ouvrir un restaurant. je conseille vivement cette methode a tout enseignant.

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ringtone88.com 5-0.gif" width="64" height="12" alt="5 out of 5 stars" border="0"> Great Book.......2006-11-13

We bought this as part of our homeschooling and my kids are really interested in it.

Returned it because of the drawings of topless women........2006-08-21

The drawings and illustrations are fantastic except for a few pages with women without tops (shirts). We don't feel that is appropriate for our grade school boys so we returned the book.
We could have torn out the pages or tried to cover them, but felt that wasn't the best solution.

Nice reference for unexpected questions.......2006-07-19

My [...] is very curious, I plan to teach a lot of history to her at home. This is a great springboard to answer her questions and decide where to go from there. Usborne books seem to have a similiar layout - if you like them, you'll like this book.

A Book For All Ages.......2005-10-06

I teach in a one room school house and I dearly love this book. It is informative enough for my older students to get concepts that enable them to branch off into their own studies, yet simple enough for the younger students to stay attentive and learn the basics. The comic book style is very user friendly for kids and helps them to summarize quickly and accurately. I have found The Usborne Book of World History to be a wonderful way to teach my students to love history.

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Finding One's Self
Delicate Nuanced Exploration of Transforming Identity
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What is Your True Life?
Great for women questioning who they became

Back When We Were Grownups
Anne Tyler
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0345477243
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

The first sentence of Anne Tyler's 15th novel sounds like something out of a fairy tale: "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person." Alas, this discovery has less to do with magic than with a late-middle-age crisis, which is visited upon Rebecca Davitch in the opening pages of Back When We Were Grownups. At 53, this perpetually agreeable widow is "wide and soft and dimpled, with two short wings of dry, fair hair flaring almost horizontally from a center part." Given her role as the matriarch of a large family--and the proprietress of a party-and-catering concern, the Open Arms--Rebecca is both personally and professionally inclined toward jollity. But at an engagement bash for one of her multiple stepdaughters, she finds herself questioning everything about her life: "How on earth did I get like this? How? How did I ever become this person who's not really me?"

She spends the rest of the novel attempting to answer these questions--and trying to resurrect her older, extinguished self. Should she take up the research she began back in college on Robert E. Lee's motivation for joining the Confederacy? More to the point, should she take up with her college sweetheart, who's now divorced and living within easy striking range? None of these quick fixes pans out exactly as Rebecca imagines. What she emerges with is a kind of radiant resignation, best expressed by 100-year-old Poppy on his birthday: "There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be." A tautology, perhaps, but Tyler's delicate, densely populated novel makes it stick.

Yes, Poppy. There are also characters named NoNo, Biddy, and Min Foo--the sort of saccharine roll call that might send many a reader scampering in the opposite direction. But Tyler knows exactly how to mingle the sweet with the sour, and in Back When We Were Grownups she manages this balancing act like the old pro she is. Even the familiar backdrop--shabby-genteel Baltimore, which resembles a virtual game preserve of Tylerian eccentrics--seems freshly observed. Can any human being really resist this novel? It Science, foi et bon comportement - Recueil de Hadith du Prophète (bilingue Arabe-Français-Phonétique)

Science, foi et bon comportement - Recueil de Hadith du Prophète (bilingue Arabe-Français-Phonétique)

Science, foi et bon comportement - Recueil de Hadith du Prophète (bilingue Arabe-Français-Phonétique)
Authors: Ibn'Abd Allah, Dr Hassan Amdouni
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Release Date: 01 December, 1999
Publisher: Al-bouraq
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bon outil pour un converti
Des Hadiths en arabe, francais et phonétique, c'est plutôt rare, efficace pour les convertis qui ne savent pas forcément parler l'arabe et encore moins le lire...
En plus, un si petit prix... pour acquérir un si grand savoir, c'est une tentation à laquelle on peut céder sans craindre les flammes de l'enfer!

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ringtone88.com has felt like life has passed them by, this story will have special meaning as a woman ponders what her true life should have been.

Great for women questioning who they became.......2007-03-23

I loved this book! It really speaks to the fact that sometime the person we are is the person we choose to be.

The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

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My favorite book ever
Well-Written and Memorable Modern Classic
Fabulous Tale!
boring dog trainer
Enjoying this book is no accident

The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Anne Tyler
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0345452003
Release Date: 2002-04-09

Book Description

“POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.”
–The New York Times

Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon’s insular world–and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.

“BITTERSWEET . . . EVOCATIVE . . . It’s easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners . . . Tyler [is] a writer of great compassion.”
–The Boston Globe

“Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one.”
–Los Angeles Times

“A DELIGHT . . . A GRACEFUL COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GETTING THROUGH LIFE.”
–The Wall Street Journal

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My favorite book ever.......2007-06-22

This is my favorite book ever. Every time I read it (and I have done this dozens of times)I fell at peace with life. I don't have to add much: everybody, by now, knows the story of Macon Leary, his funny family, brave Muriel - and, of course, Edward the dog! Buy this book. Give it a chance. You won't regret; it's like making friends for life.
Read the book, see the movie, hear the soudtrack.

Well-Written and Memorable Modern Classic.......2006-12-29

I had first heard of this book from Robert J. Ray's book "The Weekend Novelist", which serves as a sort of workbook to help someone produce a finished novel in 52 weekends. Ray's book uses "The Accidental Tourist" as a model to help guide the reader towards a better, more interesting style of writing. I decided to read Anne Tyler's book as a part of this 52-week course, and was rather impressed with how good it actually was.

"The Accidental Tourist" opens with a dramatic scene in which a travel-guide writer, Macon Leary, and his wife, Sarah are driving in their car and Sarah tells Macon that she wants a divorce. Tension has been building between the two of them since their 12-year-old son Ethan was shot during a burglary at a restaurant. Sarah agrees to let Macon keep their house and she moves out. When Macon has an accidental fall, he moves in with his sister, Rose, and brothers, Porter and Charles, to recover. Macon encounters a dog trainer, Muriel Pritchett, who he hires to train his stubborn, rambunctious dog Edward. Muriel has a personality that's in sharp contrast with Macon's behavior. While he is very systematic and organized, Muriel is eccentric (and also rather different from Sarah). Macon and Muriel gradually fall in love with each other, and Macon must make a choice between the two women, as Sarah delays the finalization of their divorce.

After reading "The Accidental Tourist", it makes sense to me why it would be chosen as a model for observing incredible skill in novel-writing. Anne Tyler's style is almost flawless...the characters develop and respond in situations realistically, the dialogue and description of scenery are also spot-on, but...there is one problem!

Though Anne Tyler is such a skilled novelist, her choice of subject matter strikes me as a bit commonplace, and even boring at times. Often, when I read a book, I usually hope for some unique, fantastic, and exciting plot line to draw me in. With "The Accidental Tourist", I don't believe that is the case at all. Instead of the actual story-line keeping me interested, it is rather Tyler's style of writing that makes the otherwise drab story colorful and interesting.

Fabulous Tale! .......2006-12-17

This is one of my all-time favorite reads, so I am definitely biased. The story (65 reviews previous to mine have probably established all this just fine) is about Macon Leary, Baltimore native, travel writer, and grieving 40-something father. He has recently separated from his wife of many years, Sarah, and is in a bewildering no-man's land where nothing makes sense any longer. In steps Muriel Pritchett, a young, eccentric dog trainer he hires to train Edward, his obstinate little dog. Who likes to bite people. A lot.

This is a wonderful book. Tyler's writing is faultless, and Macon Leary is, IMHO, one of the greatest characters in contemporary literature. Those who like their books more intellectually precious and pretentious (sometimes they do seem to go together) will disagree, but frankly he's just great. Macon is a man who is afraid to live, afraid to leave his identity of, you guessed it, the "accidental tourist". His guidebooks are written for people who are afraid to travel and who want to feel like they're stil at home even when they're not. Muriel is Macon's polar opposite, and he is both attracted to her and horrified by her at the same time.

I love this book's humor, depth of characterization, poignancy, and love for the people in it as well as for the city of Baltimore itself. I have read this book many times, and see myself in Macon more than I care to admit!

Recommended with no hesitation whatsoever!

boring dog trainer.......2006-08-07

The book is fine, except I had to skip lengthy descriptions about the dog trainer. She's such a boring character. She's young, but not motivated to work. In fact, she quited one of her jobs when Macon covered her rent. The dog training job was just a pretext for her to try to hook up with some men, and get support. The point is that she doesn't enjoy the job, thus, a detailed description of her dog training job (which she doesn't seem to enjoy) was just a boring digression.

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Le français du droit
Authors: J.-L Penfornis
Catalog: Book
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Release Date: 26 November, 1999
Publisher: Cle International
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ringtone88.com ugh to describe what is going on for the reader--consequently, the narrator, or Tyler, the author, like the other women in the book, has to take care of doing things for him. The other female characters are all in the role of caretakers to him as well. The novel opens with the death of his mother and his sister Amanda coming to take care of the funeral, which he is incapable of doing. Later, the boarders basically care for him until he marries Mary, seeing she is in dire straits and thinking he can take care of her, although she ends up being more capable than she realizes and takes care of him and a batch of children. When Mary leaves him, Olivia and then Miss Vinton become his caretakers.

Each of the characters is well-drawn out and their motivations understandable. Tyler has perfectly chosen whose point of view to tell the story from in each section. Despite Jeremy's sections being in third person, I think Tyler's strongest writing is these third-person descriptions of Jeremy as an artist--how his mind concentrates on cutting little pieces of paper and putting them together, how he is distracted by his work, his focus on his art making him oblivious to the world around him so that he doesn't even notice right away when his wife and children have left him, and rather than react, he returns to his work. The portrait of Jeremy is both sad and a bit frightening, yet so perfectly drawn and realistic. He can spend hours just staring at his work, then ten minutes working with energy, then be exhausted--it is very believable that this is the torment of his artistic abilities, that he does not feel whole when he is not creating his art, yet it takes over his life, not letting him interact with other human beings in a meaningful way.

The book has its comical moments but it is also quite heavy and depressing in a touching way. I believe Jeremy is the most difficult character Anne Tyler has captured in her works, most difficult for the reader to read about, yet completely fascinating. Celestial Navigation was Tyler's fifth novel, and it was the beginning of the truly great books of her career that have followed. I would not recommend this as the first Tyler novel to read, but any Anne Tyler fan will love it.

- Tyler R. Tichelaar, author of "Iron Pioneers" and "The Queen City", available on Amazon

raw stuff.......2006-07-27

Celestial Navigation is one of Anne Tyler's best. Right after I finished it, I couldn't wait to see what other Amazon readers thought of this novel, especially the ending. (NO, NO THERE MUST BE MORE!) was my favorite of the reviewer comments. I won't elaborate any more on that, but Tyler pulls no strings in this one. Raw reality when it comes to matters of the heart. Highly recommended!

well written... bad choice of title... nothing remotely about Celestial Navigation........2006-07-27

Well written story... read it because I felt obligated after mistakenly buying it because I thought it was about Celestial Navigation... you know... using a sextant to determine your position at sea. HA HA... WRONG... nothing about Celestial Navigation on any page in this book! Wonder how many others have made this mistake... probably the ones selling their used copy for 26 cents. (hmmmm, maybe... if I'm ever that hard up for 26 cents) A better title would be: "Portrait of the (wimpy, agoraphobic) Artist"

Lack of Communication Equals Tragedy.......2005-12-27

You know what it is? I really adored this book and felt such empathy for all the characters (save the fuss-budget narrating sister in the first chapter)and was really shocked, horrifed and heart-broken by the ending.

SPOILER......

What the hell was that?!? The children just float away and Jeremy ends up old and alone, agoraphobic and cared for by an old maid? Where were his children? Wouldn't he have still seen them? Why did Mary marry someone as limited as he (and have all those children with him) if she was just going to leave him?

She never should have left him home when she went to the hospital and had the baby, but an aknowledgement and an apology would have changed everything. Instead, an entire marriage (not to mention a life-Jeremy's) was ruined by assumption and miscommunication.
Jeremy didn't handle things well, but she knew who he was when she married him. Nonetheless, he ws the one who let them all go in the final act, and I suppose for that he deserved that sad,awful ending, but still, it broke my heart.

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Appearances can be deceiving
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A Patchwork planet
The Lady or the Tiger?
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A Patchwork Planet
Anne Tyler
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ASIN: 080411918X
Release Date: 2001-05-01

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Barnaby Gaitlin is one of Anne Tyler's most promising unpromising characters. At 30, he has yet to graduate from college, is already divorced, and is used to defeat. His mother thrives on reminding him of his adolescent delinquency and debt to his family, and even his daughter is fed up with his fecklessness. Still, attuned as he is to "the normal quota for misfortune," Barney is one of the star employees of Baltimore's Rent-a-Back, Inc., which pays him an hourly wage to help old people (and one young agoraphobe) run errands and sort out their basements and attics. Anne Tyler makes you admire most of these mothball eccentrics (though they're far from idealized) and hope that they can stave off nursing homes and death. There is, for example, "the unstoppable little black grandma whose children phoned us on an emergency basis whenever she threatened to overdo." And then there's Barnaby's new girlfriend's aunt, who will eventually accuse him of theft--"Over her forearm she carried a Yorkshire terrier, neatly folded like a waiter's napkin. 'This is my doorbell,' she said, thrusting him toward me. 'I'd never have known you were out here if not for Tatters.'" These people are wonderful creations, but their lives are more brittle than cuddly, Barnaby knows better than to think of them as friends, because they'll only die on him. Yet his job offers at least glimpses of roots and affection. Helping an old lady set up her Christmas tree (on New Year's Eve!) gives him the chance to hang a singular ornament--a snowflake "pancake-sized, slightly crumpled, snipped from gift wrap so old that the Santas were smoking cigarettes." And Barnaby himself is sharp and impatient at painful--and painfully funny--family dinners, apparently unable to keep his finger off the auto-self-destruct button every time his life improves. As much as his superb creator, he is a poet of disappointment, resignation, and minute transformation. --Kerry Fried

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In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.

Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos.

But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on an even keel.

Still, the Gaitlins (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buy Logique

Logique

Logique
Authors: Louis Vax
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Media: Broché
Release Date: 01 August, 1982
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France (PUF)
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ringtone88.com p://www.bill88.com/images/stars-4-0.gif" width="64" height="12" alt="4 out of 5 stars" border="0"> kooky square.......2006-07-25

once again ms. tyler creates a pathetic hombre. this barnaby fella personifies chump. he basically is a functional celibate, 9 years removed from his last time in the rack. sad, sorry creation and yet a worthy pile of words.

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The World's Greatest Living Author
Ann Tyler is a Genius
CAPTIVATING AND THOUGHT PROVOKING
Some Real Truth
Loved It Right Up To The End

Ladder of Years
Anne Tyler
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ASIN: 0804113475
Release Date: 1997-03-30

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"UTTERLY COMPELLING . . . WONDERFULLY SATISFYING . . . VIRTUALLY FLAWLESS."
--Chicago Tribune

BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking away from it all" is not a premeditated act but an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life. . . .

"TYLER DETAILS DELIA'S ADVENTURE WITH GREAT SKILL. . . . As so often in her earlier fiction, [she] creates distinct characters caught in poignantly funny situations. . . . Tyler writes with a clarity that makes the commonplace seem fresh and the pathetic touching."
--The New York Times

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The World's Greatest Living Author.......2007-04-16

Yeah, we're all climbing that one, aren't we? According to the cover, it was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the ten best books of the year. I agree with that no matter what year it was. This is still an author at the absolute height of her powers, and it's entirely too easy to forget the world where your body resides and to live in this one instead. It's that real. And she does make me laugh. I may have forgotten to mention that before. It's good to see I have more unread novels by her on my shelf, but the pile is shrinking too fast. I'm going to be depressed when I've read them all.

Ann Tyler is a Genius.......2006-10-02

This story, peopled by a truckload of the kind of quirky, vivid characters that are Anne Tyler's specialty, is a gem. Obviously, many people have a negative first reaction to the idea that a woman could simply walk away from her life, leaving husband, children, and sibs behind. But this is the genius of Tyler's writing. She spins a tale that almost borders on allegory. It is a wonderful world of "what if." What if I just took a walk down the beach and kept walking? How would I survive? Where would I go? What would I do? Do these people really need me at all?

Tyler's creation of Delia's alter-ego, Miss Grinstead, is inspired. The notion of starting over, tabula rasa, is magic and sets the imagination in motion. The bare room, the careful meals of vegetable soup and yogurt, the tiny purchases that Delia makes with such introspection, and her hunger to keep things simple set a great stage for building the rest of the story. Tyler sets it up like a castle of Lincoln Logs, one wonderful piece at a time. As new people enter Delia's life, the complexities of just being alive on the planet come wandering back in, because that is just the way life works!

The story does end a bit abruptly, or perhaps it only seems that way because the reader is left to wonder what becomes of all those new people in Delia's life. But really, that is ALSO how life works; things are rarely if ever wrapped up in a neat package, in the final analysis.

Let your imagination off its leash for a while and take a climb on the Ladder of Years.

CAPTIVATING AND THOUGHT PROVOKING.......2006-09-22

I must admit Anne Tyler is not my favourite author, although I have read all her books. Somehow, her humour does not shine through as it does with authors such as Dorothea Benton Franks and Lolly Winston. However, "Ladder of Years" is my favourite of Tyler's novels and it is easy to see why it once placed in Time's top ten books of the year.

The book is based around a woman in search of herself and life's purpose. Many readers will ask, "How could she go to the beach with her family, take a walk down the shoreline and intentionally disappear?" It might be something many woman have light-heartedly contemplated at least once in their lifetime, but most likely never followed through. There are some very unique, well developed characters in this book and it becomes a real page turner. As for the ending, some will say she did the right thing, others may disagree. She really does have "two separate lives" on the go - which one will she choose? Although the book was most enjoyable, the plot did not seem realistic or plausible and, for this reason, lost a star in the rating. Overall, it is still the best of Tyler.

Some Real Truth.......2006-09-19

When I first read this book several years ago, I hated it. I saw no reality in the story of Delia Grinstead, a 40-year-old wife and mother who quite literally walks out of her family's life one day--and stays away.

With my second reading, however, I see what made her walk away. I see how a woman can feel so totally invisible to her loved ones that the pull of gravity can simply release her from her bonds, so to speak.

Of course Delia isn't REALLY released from anything. Walking away from her Baltimore family into a new life as "Ms. Grinstead" in a small Maryland town allows her to experience life on an entirely different level. Here, she gets a job as a secretary (rigid Ms. Grinstead), makes a number of eclectic friends (this is where Tyler always shines, in describing the small idiosyncracies of ordinary people), and creates a new life for herself.

But what of those she left behind? Can she honestly put them away like a faded photograph? Read and see...I'm glad I gave this lovely story another chance.

Loved It Right Up To The End.......2006-09-06

I read this book on the recommendation of a friend, and had never heard of Anne Tyler. I was surprised how quickly I was totally engrossed in the novel. While I have nothing in common with the heroine Delia, I could very easily get into her mindset and understand her. I think most of us have had a day where we want to just chuck it all and walk away from our lives.

Well-written and believable, I enjoyed following Delia on her adventure, basically her "coming of age" even though her children should be going through that stage. As much as I loved it, I really didn't care for the ending - the last two pages really ended abruptly and to me, not at all clearly. I felt like I must have missed something and read the last several pages three or four times to see what I'd missed, but it wasn't there.

I still recommend this book.

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Anne Tyler
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In this book author Anne Tyler rounds out her characters with such depth that this reader felt on an intimate basis with them. While the story touches on everyday aspects that everyone will recognize, the characters are sure to evoke a sense of rightness with the way they are brought to life.

A pleasure to read. Recommended: all of Anne Tyler's other works.

Won't Be a Reread for Me.......2007-05-25

This was a well written book I'd say, it keep me interested enough to get reading towards the ending. I gave it only three stars for the reason I felt unsatisfied at the end. It would skip 10-15 years between each chapter so it seemed more so a whole lot of epilogues rather than a continuous novel. I'm sad to say this won't be one of the book I choose to read again.

The World's Greatest Living Author.......2007-04-16

After you've read enough Anne Tyler novels, all wonderful, you wonder if she has anything left to write about. Yes, she does. After a number of novels written in the present, we drop back in time here to the World War II era and move forward through the decades. She had fun with the Sixties. Yet another novel you definitely want to read, with all the sly humor and poignancy you expect of Anne Tyler. The stunning powers of observation, the spot-on characterization, the themes that never fail to resonate, the utter reality that she always gives us. And the words. I've probably forgotten to praise her use of language before. It was always there. Everything was always there.

Remember when I said she peaked about half a career ago? What's amazing is that, in this novel from 2001, she's still peaking. Will she stop? I don't know, and I only have one Anne Tyler novel newer than this. Again, she is the world's greatest living author. I don't ask that as a question anymore. It's a statement of fact.

Very good work of fiction.......2007-02-11

I really enjoyed this book. This was a good, solid story that kept you turning the pages (or, in my case, pushing "play" since I listened to the unabridged audio book version). There was so much realism in the book which showed the story behind the facade (representative of many marriages).

The only reason I gave it four stars instead of five is because the ending was a little disappointing. I wish I could give it 4.5 stars as it really didn't take away from the book that much.

Overall, I definitely recommend this book! Enjoy!

The best yet!.......2006-12-02

I have read so many of Anne's books but this one brought me to tears so many times, and I found my self laughing out loud on many occasions. I can't get over how intune and insightive she is to real life. She makes it "more real" then it really is. I'm really sad that the book ended, I wish there were just endless chapters!

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Anne Tyler
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"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."
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Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell....

From the Paperback edition.

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a dysfunctional family expertly dissected != fun read.......2007-06-23

To be sure, Anne Tyler is an excellent writer. She has a fine grasp for prose and a keen eye for detail. In her 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' we have a single mom and her brood of three kids growing up, and eventually apart, in inner city Baltimore. We witness how family squabbles fester, adults are haunted by childhood traumas, and how this one particular family doesn't exactly exactly live happily ever after. It's mostly a sad, 'oh, I've been there too"-type of read.

This well-crafted yet depressing read does have a few technical demerits. The author doesn't delve deeply enough into the psyche of the several main characters. Just when I think I understand one character there is a context switch to another scene and, well, I find myself forgetting about the character for the next fifty or more pages. This patchwork effect left me somewhat unsympathetic to the main characters, which surely wasn't the author's intention.

Bottom line: one of those books where a "fine read" doesn't equate to "fun read". Nonetheless the many Anne Tyler fans out there should give it a try.

The World's Greatest Living Author.......2007-04-16

You know I've read most of the 8 books that preceded this -- two are on order -- and I've raved that she could've just ended her career right there and remained relevant for centuries. But instead, she raised the bar even higher, merged every theme and every technique she'd shown previously, and wrote with enough skill and mastery to simply blow me away. An astounding number of layers, complexity woven tightly, yet so accessible that you'll enjoy it when you read it and you'll continue to enjoy it months or even years later. Please tell me it can't get any better than this.

A Modern Classic.......2007-04-05

Live through a few generations of one family and see how time affects the family members. The characters are flawed, but thoroughly human.

Would Recommend.......2007-03-27

Item arrived in a timely fashion, in good condition. Packaged well. Would order from this seller again.

Time in a Timeless Classic.......2007-03-18

This wonderful novel is now a quarter century old, and it is just as fresh and enjoyable as when it was first published. In fact, of Anne Tyler's large body of work, seventeen novels to date, I would put this one at the top of the list along with Breathing Lessons, Back When We Were Grownups, Earthly Possessions, and Searching for Caleb.

The novel is the story of the Tull family over nearly half a century--Pearl, who tries to pretend everything in the family is normal after her husband deserts her and her children, and the children, Cody, who cannot understand why his father left, Ezra who tries to keep things peaceful in the family, making them sit down to eat together--although they can never finish a meal at his "Homesick Restaurant", and Jenny, who cannot seem to stay in a successful relati Atlas historique des villes de France : Saint-Malo

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She's one of America's finest contemporary novelists, winning many awards for her work--including a Pulitzer Prize. Anne Tyler is both literary and popular, one of the few writers whose high sales match her critical acclaim. Now you can enjoy three of her more recent bestsellers in one low-priced, attractively packaged hardcover.

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Great summer read.......2007-05-11

This is a great, easy, summer read. The characters are fun, quirky and surprisingly easy to relate to.

A Pathchwork Planet.......2004-05-03

This was the first book of A. Tyler's that I read. I thought the most beautifully written. Somehow the title suits the book and a beautifully crafted work. The characters are human, a bit sad and you find yourself cheering them on. This book enticed me to read her others. I also liked Ladder of Years, but not as much. Breathing Lessons for which she won the Pulitzer I felt was not as good as her later works.

Amazing bargain.......2002-03-21

This volume is a collection of three novels by Anne Tyler: "A Patchwork Planet" of 1998, "Ladder of Years" of 1995, and "Saint Maybe" of 1991. Hardbound and durable, this volume is a better option for a reader who has started reading Anne Tyler, and even for the reader who already owns one or two paperbacks with novels contained in this volume. This volume is simply beautiful. Pleasant serif typeface, good, bright paper, nice cover artwork, and finally, amazingly low cost. You get three hardbound novels for a price of one paperback. In addition, all three novels of Anne Tyler belong to the more interesting subset of her literary heritage, so there is really nothing to be suspicious about here. Psst, do not tell anyone I have said that, but such bargains are possible only in North America. Nowhere else I would be able to get hold of three interesting novels combined in one hardbound volume for almost nothing. Do not hesitate, dear reader, and rush to purchase this collection. Now!

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