Ladder of Years
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st Feb '96
Should be back in stock very soon
From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Ladder of Years is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style
But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her?
**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 1 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**
'One of my favourite authors' Liane Moriarty
'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan
'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve
'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks
One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going.
After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her?
**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**
'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce
'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali
'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks
'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson
No one evokes the frustrations of marriage, family life and independence with such pinpoint accuracy as Tyler * Daily Mail *
It is difficult to imagine a writer so prodigiously gifted * Herald *
Another winner from Anne Tyler * Independent *
Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page…scintillating with joie de vivre * Sunday Times *
Utterly compelling…wonderfully satisfying...virtually flawless * Chicago Tribune *
Anne Tyler is a writer of immaculate delicacy * Observer *
Her best book yet
Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page. Ladder of Years ruefully contemplates the unhaltable passage of time. But, scintillating with joie de vivre, it also offers an intensely appealing way of passing it * Sunday Times *
Anne Tyler's novels have three qualities that make them special: they are funny, they are sad, they are intelligent
Dialogue top-rate, people alive to their fingertips, places as real as next door - you don't get a finer comedy of manners than this * Mail on Sunday *
- Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 1996
ISBN: 9780099479413
Dimensions: 199mm x 131mm x 28mm
Weight: 313g
448 pages