A spool of blue thread / Anne Tyler.
Publication details: London : Chatto & Windus, 2015.Edition: First editionDescription: 357 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780701189525
- 9780701189518
- Domestic fiction
- Grandparent and child -- Fiction
- Grandparents -- Fiction
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
- Married people -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- American fiction -- 21st century
- Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
- Grandparent and child -- Fiction
- Grandparents -- Fiction
- Storytelling -- Fiction
- Love stories
- Domestic fiction
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction
- 813/.54 23
- PS3570.Y45 S68 2015
- FIC044000 | FIC008000 | FIC019000
- Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | TYL | Available | 058613 |
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon.' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red met that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home. They've all come, even Denny, who can usually be relied on only to please himself. From that porch we spool back through three generations of the Whitshanks, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are. And while all families like to believe they are special, round that kitchen table over all those years we see played out the hopes and fears, the rivalries and tensions of families everywhere - the essential nature of family life.
Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.