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The Tin Can Tree
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Narrator
- Tara Ward
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 24 October 2019
- Run Time
- 7 hours 9 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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The audio edition of The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler.
When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way.
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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A wholly individual writer of considerable stature
Sunday Telegraph
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Her touch is deft, her perceptions keen, her ear for speech phenomenal. Her people are triumphantly alive
New York Times
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Miss Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredictability of seemingly everyday lives...She is a wholly individual writer and one of considerable stature
Sunday Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Narrator
- Tara Ward
- Duration
- 7 hours 9 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9781473574496
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Family life fiction / Stories about family
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.The audio edition of The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler.When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way.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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