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Ladder Of Years

Ladder Of Years

by Anne Tyler (Author), Anne Tyler (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

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Synopsis

On a beach holiday,forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in swimsuit and beachrobe, walks away from her family and just keeps on walking...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 448
 Edition: Vintage Edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Feb 1996
ISBN 10: 0099479419
ISBN 13: 9780099479413
Book Overview: 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
 Prizes: Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 1996.

Media Reviews
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 *
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.