shopping cart
Powell's 2010 Puddly Awards
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Original Essays | December 24, 2009

Richard Wiseman: IMG The New Science of Rapid Change



Want to improve your life? Perhaps lose weight, find your perfect partner, or obtain your dream job? Try this simple exercise... Close your eyes and... Continue »
  1. $16.80 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

Ladder of Years

by Anne Tyler

Ladder of Years Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

"UTTERLY COMPELLING . . . WONDERFULLY SATISFYING . . . VIRTUALLY FLAWLESS."

--Chicago Tribune

BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking away from it all" is not a premeditated act but an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life. . . .

"TYLER DETAILS DELIA'S ADVENTURE WITH GREAT SKILL. . . . As so often in her earlier fiction, [she] creates distinct characters caught in poignantly funny situations. . . . Tyler writes with a clarity that makes the commonplace seem fresh and the pathetic touching."

--The New York Times

About the Author

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941, but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated at nineteen from Duke University and went to do graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. Anne Tyler has written thirteen novels. Breathing Lessons was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She and her husband, Taghi Modarressi, live in Baltimore, Maryland.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780804113472
Author:
Tyler, Anne
Publisher:
Ivy Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Missing persons
Subject:
Identity (psychology)
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Copyright:
Series Volume:
EO97-02
Publication Date:
March 1997
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
6.84x4.19x1.06 in. .46 lbs.

Other books you might like

  1. $5.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    The Pull of the Moon

    Elizabeth Berg
  2. $2.50 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    A Patchwork Planet

    Anne Tyler
  3. $3.75 Used Hardcover add to wish list
  4. $5.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston
  5. $4.95 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    The Killer Angels

    Michael Shaara
  6. $2.50 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    Summons To Memphis

    Peter Taylor

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.