If Morning Ever Comes

If Morning Ever Comes

by Anne Tyler (Author)

Synopsis

Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram. He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears his eldest sister Joanne has left her husband and returned home with her baby girl. Out of a mixture of homesickness and duty Ben Joe returns to the home in which he has always felt like an outsider.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Nov 1987

ISBN 10: 0099539101
ISBN 13: 9780099539100
Book Overview: From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. If Morning Ever Comes is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style

Media Reviews
Funny, serious, touching, zany, delightful, revealing...a triumph of perception * Harper's *
Anne Tyler has won herself a devoted following. Rightly so: her novels are beautifully controlled, witty, subtle, with an undercurrent of human warmth * Sunday Telegraph *
She is a writer who gets to the heart of the matter without being glib, and cleverly reveals the extraordinary in seemingly ordinary lives * Daily Mail *
Anne Tyler's touch is deft, her perceptions keen, her ear for speech phenomenal, her people triumphantly alive... Only a rarely talented novelist could have written this fine book * New York Times *
Her fiction is a quiet, gentle reminder of the goodness to be found in most ordinary lives * 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.