Anne Tyler

Rakastettu kirjailija kuvaa tarkkanäköisesti baltimorelaisperhettä neljän sukupolven ja yhden talon kautta.Abby ja Red Whitshank asuvat Redin isän rakentamassa hulppeassa talossa Baltimoren paremmalla puolella. Kun aikuiset lapset muuttavat kutsumatta huolehtimaan ikääntyvistä vanhemmistaan, perheen dynamiikkaa koetellaan.Suvun muotokuva rakentuu mosaiikin lailla perheenjäsenten iloista, pikkumaisuuksista ja katkeruuksista. Köyhyydestä ponnistanut isoisä on jättänyt perinnöksi paitsi talon ja ylpeyden omista juurista myös kaihertavan alemmuudentunteen.Kerimällä auki yhden suvun tarinan Tyler suorittaa amerikkalaisen keskiluokan ruumiinavauksen. Viilto on armoton, mutta katse armollinen.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORWhen Pearl Tullâ??s husband, Beck, abandons her she pours her energies into preserving normality. Now, as Pearl lies on her deathbed, the impact of Beckâ??s abrupt departure unspools: on Cody who canâ??t overcome his anger, on mild Ezra who must always keep the peace, and on bright, errant Jenny.

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste.

After losing her husband in a motor accident, at 53 Rebecca asks herself whether she is an imposter in her own life. Is she really the joyous and outgoing celebrator that her family think she is? What would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? And should she try to find him again?

Barnaby Gailtin has less in life than he once had. His ex-wife Natalie left him and their native Baltimore several years ago, taking their baby daughter Opal with her, and he has acquired an unalterably fixed position as the black sheep of the family in a family where black sheep aren't tolerated.

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a "funny, heart-hammering, wise" (The New York Times) portrait of a family that will remind you why "to read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love" (PEOPLE). Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their memories--some painful--which hold them together despite their differences. Hardened by life's disappointments, wealthy, charismatic Cody has turned cruel and envious. Thrice-married Jenny is errant and passionate. And Ezra, the flawed saint of the family, who stayed at home to look after his mother, runs a restaurant where he cooks what other people are homesick for, stubbornly yearning for the perfect family he never had. Now gathered during a time of loss, they will reluctantly unlock the shared secrets of their past and discover if what binds them together is stronger than what tears them apart. " In Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler] has arrived at a new level of power." --John Updike, The New Yorker "Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, and] strewn with the banana peels of love." --Cosmopolitan

Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy batchelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make mosaic sculptures, until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down.

But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her? **ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 1 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE** 'One of my favourite authors' Liane Moriarty 'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan 'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve 'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks

Discover a beautiful story of what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne TylerHow does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?

Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested...

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now, as Pearl lies dying, the past is unlocked and with it its secrets.

'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' Daily Mail Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl.

Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's classic exploration of the impact of grief on a family. When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination.

Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past. Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer at the height of her powers.

Rakastetun kirjailijan odotettu romaani äidin ja tyttären sotkuisesta suhteesta ja perhesalaisuuksista. Gail Bainesilla on huono päivä. Töissä käden ulottuvilla ollut ylennys vaihtuu haukuiksi - ja Gail huomaa irtisanoutuneensa. Debbie-tyttären häät ovat ovella, mutta sulhasen äiti uhkaa varastaa koko shown ja vielä tyttärenkin. Seuraavaksi Gailin ovikelloa soittaa ex-mies Max. Tästä kaikesta vielä selvittäisiin, mutta sitten Debbie saa kuulla tulevan aviomiehensä tuoreesta hairahduksesta. Äkkiä vaakalaudalla ovat paitsi häät myös Gailin ja Maxin suhde tyttäreensä. Palkitun taiturin romaani kuvaa perhe-elämän iloja ja tragedioita herkästi ja hellän humoristisesti - kuten vain Anne Tyler osaa.

‘Just relishable. Thank God for the balm of good writing’ NIGELLA LAWSON‘A joy to read in a single relaxing afternoon’ JACQUELINE WILSON'Razor sharp on family, love and marriage' DAVID NICHOLLS'I devoured it in one long lazy afternoon - I laughed and cried' VICTORIA HISLOPThe happily ever after is only part of the story… A funny, touching, hopeful gem about love, marriage and second chances It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting to stay for the festivities. He doesn’t even have a suit. Instead, he’s brought memories, a shared sense of humour – and a cat looking for a new home.Just as Gail is wondering what’s next, their daughter Debbie discovers her groom has been keeping a secret…As the big day dawns, the exes just can’t agree on what’s best for Debbie. Gail is seriously worried, while Max seems more concerned with whether to opt for the salmon or prime rib at the reception, if they make it that far.The day after the wedding, Gail and Max prepare to go their separate ways again. But all the questions about the future of the happy couple have stirred up the past for Gail. Because ‘happy’ takes many forms, and sometimes the younger generation has much to teach the older about secrets, acceptance and taking the rough with the smooth.'Clear-eyed, out-and-out funny and a cause for celebration' RACHEL JOYCE'Three Days in June has all her trademark wry humour and brilliant observation, brought together with her immaculate technique. It’s full of love, and that can never be beaten' ELIZABETH BUCHAN'If Anne Tyler isn’t the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC R4 WOMAN'S HOUR'Anne Tyler really is the best' GRAHAM NORTON'Our greatest chronicler of family life' DAILY MAIL'Nobody does it better' VOGUE

«La mejor cronista de la vida familiar (Daily Mail), ganadora de los premios Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle y Pen/Faulkner, regresa con una de sus mejores novelas: una historia llena de humor y esperanza sobre el amor, la familia y la afirmaci n de la independencia. Gail Baines ha tenido un mal d a. No est segura de si ha dejado su trabajo de forma voluntaria o si la han echado. Es la v spera de la boda de Debbie, su hija, y esta no ha tenido la delicadeza de invitarla al d a de spa organizado por su futura consuegra. Para terminar de rematar todo, su exmarido Max se ha instalado en su casa sin avisar, cargado con un gato y sin tan siquiera un traje para asistir a la boda. Pero la verdadera crisis llega cuando Debbie les conf a un secreto, del que acaba de enterarse, sobre su futuro marido, que podr a dar al traste con el enlace, adem s de remover el pasado de Gail y Max. Una novela construida sobre las alegr as y los sinsabores del amor, el matrimonio y la vida familiar, narrada con la sensibilidad, el mordaz sentido del humor y la maestr a de la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding. "What a treat." --Washington Post "Simply exquisite." --Liane Moriarty "Nobody understands human nature better than Tyler. And nobody understands the complexities of love the way she does." --Boston Globe "Three Days in June is like reading a hug." --Minneapolis Star Tribune Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job--or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn't even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail's ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max's past. Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the height of her powers.

‘Just relishable. Thank God for the balm of good writing’ NIGELLA LAWSON‘A joy to read in a single relaxing afternoon’ JACQUELINE WILSON'Razor sharp on family, love and marriage' DAVID NICHOLLS'I devoured it in one long lazy afternoon - I laughed and cried' VICTORIA HISLOPThe happily ever after is only part of the story… A funny, touching, hopeful gem about love, marriage and second chances It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting to stay for the festivities. He doesn’t even have a suit. Instead, he’s brought memories, a shared sense of humour – and a cat looking for a new home.Just as Gail is wondering what’s next, their daughter Debbie discovers her groom has been keeping a secret…As the big day dawns, the exes just can’t agree on what’s best for Debbie. Gail is seriously worried, while Max seems more concerned with whether to opt for the salmon or prime rib at the reception, if they make it that far.The day after the wedding, Gail and Max prepare to go their separate ways again. But all the questions about the future of the happy couple have stirred up the past for Gail. Because ‘happy’ takes many forms, and sometimes the younger generation has much to teach the older about secrets, acceptance and taking the rough with the smooth.'Clear-eyed, out-and-out funny' RACHEL JOYCE'Has all her trademark wry humour and brilliant observation' ELIZABETH BUCHAN'If Anne Tyler isn’t the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC R4 WOMAN'S HOUR'Anne Tyler really is the best' GRAHAM NORTON'Our greatest chronicler of family life' DAILY MAIL'Nobody does it better' VOGUE