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Clock Dance
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Narrator
- Kimberly Farr
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 12 July 2018
- Run Time
- 9 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Clock Dance by Anne Tyler, read by Kimberly Farr.
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.
So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son’s ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman – and her nine-year-old daughter, and her dog – will lead Willa into uncharted territory. Surrounded by new and surprising neighbours, she is plunged into the rituals that make a community, and takes pleasure in the most unexpected things.
A bittersweet novel of hope and regret, fulfilment and renewal, Clock Dance brings us the everyday life of a woman who decides it’s never too late to change direction, and choose your own path.
'She is and always will be my favourite author' Liane Moriarty
Critics Review
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If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
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One of our greatest living fiction writers and if I was in charge, she'd have a Nobel by now
Observer
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Brims with the qualities that have brought her legions of fans and high critical acclaim. Characters pulse with lifelikeness. The tone flickers between humorous relish and sardonic shrewdness. Dialogue crackles with authenticity. Beneath it all is an insistence that it's never too soon to recognise how quickly life can speed by and never too late to make vitalising changes
Sunday Times
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How does she do it? Her style is deceptively simple. Even though she performs narrative cartwheels that would lead other novelists to be praised as experimental... she does it with such ease that it seems closer to life than to art. it is almost as though we are there to witness time passing, and people changing
Mail on Sunday
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A writer sharp-eyed as a butcher-bird, skewering complacency... an immensely funny writer... a quiet writer, in that much of her skill goes toward the excision of anything that reminds the reader they are reading
Sunday Telegraph
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Clock Dance, rife with the hurts and joys of living, is far more than merely very good... For readers Anne Tyler is a life force; for writers she is simply the best
Irish Times
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A smart, touching exploration of altruism and the nature of a meaningful life
Daily Mail
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A beautifully crafted, bitter-sweet story about regret, empty nest syndrome, loneliness within a relationship and seeking purpose and fulfilment in life. Kick back and lose yourself in this gem of a novel
Irish Times
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My favourite author… She writes such absorbing, wise, tender books, devastatingly acute about human nature… She never fails
Jacqueline Wilson
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The loneliness and confusion of childhood are wonderfully rendered...reminiscent of Tyler's best work, such as Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Narrator
- Kimberly Farr
- Duration
- 9 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 July 2018
- ISBN
- 9781473563384
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss
Synopsis
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Clock Dance by Anne Tyler, read by Kimberly Farr. Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son’s ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman – and her nine-year-old daughter, and her dog – will lead Willa into uncharted territory. Surrounded by new and surprising neighbours, she is plunged into the rituals that make a community, and takes pleasure in the most unexpected things. A bittersweet novel of hope and regret, fulfilment and renewal, Clock Dance brings us the everyday life of a woman who decides it’s never too late to change direction, and choose your own path.'She is and always will be my favourite author' Liane Moriarty
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