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A Slipping Down Life
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Narrator
- Deborah McBride
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 24 October 2019
- Run Time
- 5 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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The audio edition of A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler.
In a small Southern town teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead their two lives become unforgettably entwined in this remarkable novel.
OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD
‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor
‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty
‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan
‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve
‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby
‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks
‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike
‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner
‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty
Critics Review
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Wickedly good
John Updike
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Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age
Allison Pearson, Daily Mail
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Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate
Guardian
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Funny and lyrical and true, exquisite in its details and ambitious in its design...rich...warm. The writer is not merely good, she is wickedly good
John Updike
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Miss Tyler never loses her control. She writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion
The Times
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Details
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Narrator
- Deborah McBride
- Duration
- 5 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9781473574526
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.The audio edition of A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler. In a small Southern town teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead their two lives become unforgettably entwined in this remarkable novel.OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan ‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner ‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty
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