A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...'
This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer's day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.
From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red's father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red's grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century - four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home...
ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE
'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce
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ANNE TYLER
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
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TYLER ANNE
Reconocida novelista estadounidense. Tyler nació el 25 de octubre de 1941 en Minneapolis, Minnesota, y es autora de más de veinte novelas, muchas de ellas ambientadas en Baltimore, Maryland, donde ha vivido desde 1967.
Su obra más famosa es El turista accidental The Accidental Tourist, 1985 , que fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer y adaptada al cine en 1988. En 1989, ganó el Premio Pulitzer de Ficción por Ejercicios respiratorios Breathing Lessons, 1988 . Tyler es conocida por su estilo narrativo detallado y su enfoque en las relaciones familiares y la vida cotidiana.
