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Anne Tyler

Autor(a) de The Accidental Tourist

75+ Works 50,573 Membros 1,699 Reviews 275 Favorited

About the Author

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 25, 1941. She graduated from Duke University at the age of 19 and completed graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a librarian and bibliographer. Her first novel, If Morning mostrar mais Ever Comes, was published in 1964. Her other works include Saint Maybe, Back When We Were Grownups, Digging to America, Noah's Compass, The Beginner's Goodbye, A Spool of Blue Thread, and Vinegar Girl. She has won several awards including the PEN Faulkner Award in 1983 for Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Accidental Tourist, and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons. The Accidental Tourist was adapted into a 1988 movie starring William Hurt and Geena Davis. In 2018 her title, Clock Dance, made the bestsellers list. (Bowker Author Biography) Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. "Back When We Were Grownups" is her 15th novel; her 11th, "Breathing Lessons", won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos
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Obras de Anne Tyler

The Accidental Tourist (1985) 5,386 cópias
Breathing Lessons (1988) 4,245 cópias
Back When We Were Grownups (2001) 3,644 cópias
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) 3,629 cópias
Digging to America (2006) 3,596 cópias
A Escada dos Anos (1995) 3,063 cópias
A Spool of Blue Thread (2015) 3,038 cópias
The Amateur Marriage (2004) 3,034 cópias
Saint Maybe (1991) 2,793 cópias
A Patchwork Planet (1998) 2,577 cópias
Vinegar Girl (2016) 1,712 cópias
Noah's Compass (2009) 1,678 cópias
The Beginner's Goodbye (2012) 1,293 cópias
Clock Dance (2018) 1,247 cópias
Redhead by the Side of the Road (2020) 1,181 cópias
Celestial Navigation (1974) 949 cópias
Searching for Caleb (1975) 932 cópias
Earthly Possessions (1977) 907 cópias
French Braid (2022) 904 cópias
Morgan's Passing (1980) 877 cópias
The Clock Winder (1972) 855 cópias
If Morning Ever Comes (1964) 794 cópias
A Slipping-Down Life (1970) 734 cópias
The Tin Can Tree (1965) 612 cópias
Tumble Tower (1993) 90 cópias
The Best American Short Stories 1983 (1983) — Editor — 73 cópias
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (2005) — Selected and Introduced by — 47 cópias
Timothy Tugbottom Says No! (2005) 24 cópias
My Fish Does Not Chirp (1996) 22 cópias
Selected from the Accidental Tourist (1991) — Autor — 6 cópias
Palmikko (2023) 3 cópias
Saint Maybe [1998 TV movie] (1998) — Autor — 3 cópias
Your Place is Empty (1992) 2 cópias
The clock winder 1 exemplar(es)
Nos tendres cruautés (2023) 1 exemplar(es)
La danse du temps (2020) 1 exemplar(es)
Middag på Restaurant Hjemve (1983) 1 exemplar(es)
Sirke Kiz (2018) 1 exemplar(es)
Sankt Muligvis (1995) 1 exemplar(es)
Toujours paartir 1 exemplar(es)
Cuesta abajo (1991) 1 exemplar(es)
Obiad w restauracji dla samotnych (1993) 1 exemplar(es)
Amatör Evlilik (2006) 1 exemplar(es)
Lugares de Passagem (1992) 1 exemplar(es)
Nekoć kad smo bili odrasli (2003) 1 exemplar(es)
Beautiful Lies 1 exemplar(es)
Celestial navigation 1 exemplar(es)
Anne Tyler Fiction Collection (2012) 1 exemplar(es)
Breathing Lessons / The Alphabet Sisters / Firefly Summer (2012) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Penelope Fitzgerald 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

We Are the Stories We Tell (1990) — Contribuinte — 193 cópias
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contribuinte — 159 cópias
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contribuinte — 117 cópias
Granta 118: Exit Strategies (2012) — Contribuinte — 83 cópias
The Seasons of Women: An Anthology (1995) — Contribuinte — 46 cópias
Southern Dogs and Their People (2000) — Contribuinte — 39 cópias
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Contribuinte — 21 cópias
The Accidental Tourist (abridged|Penguin Readers, level 3) (1999) — Original novel — 20 cópias
Good Housekeeping Short Story Collection (1997) — Contribuinte — 15 cópias
The Best American Short Stories 1977 (1977) — Contribuinte — 15 cópias
Breathing Lessons [1994 TV movie] (1994) — Autor — 10 cópias
Earthly Possessions [1999 TV movie] (1999) — Original book — 8 cópias
A Slipping-Down Life [1999 film] (2007) — Autor — 5 cópias
Back When We Were Grownups [2004 TV movie] (2004) — Autor — 4 cópias

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The book jacket describes Micah Mortimer as "a creatyre of habit." I think he could be the poster boy for OCD. The book explores his life and his struggles with understanding the people around him, most especially those he loves. Tyler does a wonderful job in this short read exploring the ways we might perceive the world, and try to exercise control. Micah's routines and habits are his attempt to maintain order and the perception of control over his world. But two events disrupt his life and challenge his control - an unexpected visit from the son of an old flame and a call from his girlfriend telling him she is about to be evict. For most of us these would be ripples in a pond but for Micah they will shift his world. I enjoyed this book tremendously. It is at times funny, at others heartwarming and at others a mixture of both joy and sadness. There may be a bit of Micah in all of us as we, too, might fail to perceive the "Redhead by the Side of the Road."… (mais)
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Al-G | outras 92 resenhas | Mar 14, 2024 |
I hope she marries Jen. 12:03:24
 
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BJMacauley | outras 61 resenhas | Mar 11, 2024 |
There is no redhead by the side of the road in Anne Tyler's 2020 novel “Redhead by the Side of the Road.” It is just a red fire hydrant that the nearsighted Micah Mortimer sees as a woman when he goes running every morning without his glasses.

Yet his vision doesn't really seem to be that bad. On one of his runs near the end of the novel, Micah slows down when he sees a feeble old man open his car door "with one crabbed hand" before getting inside. He can see a "crabbed hand" but not a fire hydrant? But no, Tyler makes it clear that the redhead has more to do with Micah's imagination than his vision. He converts "inanimate objects into human beings" because of his loneliness. He wishes there were redhead by the side of the road.

Nearing 40, Micah lives alone in Baltimore and manages a one-man computer repair business out of his home. His life is orderly to the point of running at a certain time each morning and cleaning his kitchen a certain of the week.

He has had a series of short-lived love affairs, including one with a teacher named Cass, which ends early in novel for reasons he fails to understand.

Then Brink, a college boy, shows up at his door believing Micah might be his real father. He is the son of Lorna, Micah's college girlfriend. Micah knows Brink cannot be his son because he and Lorna never had sex together, but Brink reconnects him briefly with Lorna. She explains her version of why they broke up nearly two decades earlier. And that leads Micah to take control of his life, although Tyler's ending may actually suggest just the opposite. Is he taking control or surrendering? And is there a difference?

Much shorter than a typical Anne Tyler novel, “Redhead” is irresistible.
… (mais)
½
 
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hardlyhardy | outras 92 resenhas | Mar 7, 2024 |
Reason read; Pulitzer 1989
This is my 5th novel by Anne Tyler. I like her writing and I liked this one. The story is the story of a marriage. This couple have been married awhile, the son is an adult who has been mostly a disappointment and a daughter that they will be taking to college the next day. The mother is always trying "to fix" things. The father tends to try to "tell the truth". Both parents cause her hurt. Their relationship is what is significant. They have learned to love each other in spite of the disappointments and differences.… (mais)
 
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Kristelh | outras 72 resenhas | Feb 18, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
75
Also by
18
Membros
50,573
Popularidade
#301
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
1,699
ISBNs
1,201
Idiomas
25
Favorito
275

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