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001 2014045502
003 DLC
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008 141128s2015 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2014045502
020 $a9781101874271 (hardcover)
020 $z9781101874288 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3570.Y45$bS68 2015
082 00 $a813/.54$223
084 $aFIC044000$aFIC008000$aFIC019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aTyler, Anne.
245 12 $aA spool of blue thread /$cAnne Tyler.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2015.
300 $a357 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"This is a Borzoi book."
520 $a"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them, and the fate of the house so lovingly built by Red's father. Brimming with the luminous insight, humor, and compassion that are Anne Tyler's hallmarks, this capacious novel takes us across three generations of the Whitshanks, their shared stories and long-held secrets, all the unguarded and richly lived moments that combine to define who and what they are as a family"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aGrandparents$vFiction.
650 0 $aStorytelling$vFiction.
655 0 $aDomestic fiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Contemporary Women.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Sagas.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781101874271.jpg