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A slipping-down life: a novel

โœ Scribed by Anne Tyler


Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2011;2018
Tongue
en-US
Weight
110 KB
Edition
First Vintage books edition
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0345478959

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โœฆ Synopsis


BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye.

"Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place."
--NEWSDAY

Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....


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