Earthly Possessions

Earthly Possessions

by Anne Tyler (Author)

Synopsis

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour. But Charlotte is about to escape in a way she never expected, as a young bank robber takes her hostage, and they head south for Florida in a stolen car.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Promotion Copy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Aug 1997

ISBN 10: 0099463709
ISBN 13: 9780099463702
Book Overview: 'The most impressive American novelist of her generation' Sunday Telegraph

Media Reviews
My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world, is Anne Tyler... Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive -- Nick Hornby * Independent on Sunday *
Funny and moving * The Times *
A skilful novel by a writer in full flight from the obvious * Observer *
Wickedly good -- John Updike
Author Bio
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread and Vinegar Girl. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.