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Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler (1998, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Large Print
ISBN-100375702903
ISBN-139780375702907
eBay Product ID (ePID)1016689
Product Key Features
Book TitlePatchwork Planet
Number of Pages270 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicGeneral
FeaturesLarge Type
GenreFiction
AuthorAnne Tyler
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight18.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-051828
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingA
Reviews"Anne Tyler writes like an angel....One of those books that readers close at the end and recognize the truth they contain." --USA Today A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "A PERFECT GEM...TYLER'S BOOKS GET WISER, FUNNIER AND RICHER AS THEY GO." --The Seattle Times "SO WONDERFULLY READABLE THAT ONE SWALLOWS IT IN A SINGLE GULP...What makes this novel so irresistible is the main character and narrator Barnaby Gaitlin, a 30-year-old misfit, a renegade who is actually a kind-hearted man struggling to find his place in the world." --Philadelphia Inquirer "IF WE BELIEVE THAT SERIOUS NOVELS ARE ABOUT THE SEARCH FOR A TRUE HOME, THEN A PATCHWORK PLANET IS A NOVEL THAT REPAYS OUR ALWAYS DELIGHTED ATTENTION." --Carol Shields,The New York Times Book Review "POSSESSES A TENDERNESS REMINISCENT OF BREATHING LESSONS...[Tyler] is beloved not just for her three-dimensional Baltimore or her quirkily intimate characters, but also for the small, heroic struggles they encounter in the course of a day." --The Boston Sunday Globe "VINTAGE TYLER...A PATCHWORK PLANET TELLS THE HEART-TUGGING STORY OF THE SINS OF THE BOY BEING VISITED ON THE MAN." --Chicago Tribune "FRESH AND ENGAGING." --Time "Filled with insight and compassion, Anne Tyler's 14th novel chronicles a year in the life of a 30-year-old 'loser' named Barnaby Gaitlin....Tyler has crafted a remarkably lovable character, a young man as endearing as Macon Leary, the memorable protagonist of her 1985 bestseller, The Accidental Tourist." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "What resonates throughout the novel is Tyler's gentle wisdom. Her understanding of the complexities of human nature comes across beautifully, making this book a singular treat....She endows the tale of Barnaby's eventual self-discovery and redemption with charm, quiet humor and many bittersweet observations on the meaning of emotional connectedness with those around us, the aging process and the ability we all possess to start afresh." --The Miami Herald "This could only be Tyler territory, where losers are treated with a tenderness that encourages them to consider winning in the world. In her 14th novel, the persuasive storyteller with the beautiful, unforced style works her familiar ground--family, connection, the quirks of humans--with ease." --Entertainment Weekly "A Patchwork Planet is filled with descriptions that summarize an entire way of life in a single image....[Tyler's] genius lies in making quotidian events extraordinarily poignant." --San Francisco Chronicle "In an uncertain world, it's reassuring to know for an absolute fact that Anne Tyler's next novel (and the one after that and the one after that) will cause me to shiver at truths that I recognize but have never heard voiced, pinch me sharply with its poignancy and catch me off guard with funny moments that make me laugh so hard I have to put the book down until I get a grip on myself. Tyler's 14th novel, A Patchwork Planet, does all that." --San Diego Union Tribune "ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL: Tyler's many admirers are sure to number this among her very best work....[Her] appealing warmth and fla
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition
SynopsisSee the difference, read bestselling author Anne Tyler in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos. But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on an even keel. Still, the Gaitlins (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buying off Barnaby's former victims. And his ex-wife would just as soon he didn't show up ever to visit their little girl, Opal. Even the nice, steady woman (his guardian angel?) who seems to have designs on him doesn't fully trust him, it develops, when the chips are down, and it looks as though his world may fall apart again. There is no one like Anne Tyler, with her sharp, funny, tender perceptions about how human beings navigate on a puzzling planet, and she keeps us enthralled from start to finish in this delicious new novel.
LC Classification NumberPS3570.Y45P38 1998
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