by Anne Tyler · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099288039
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«A Patchwork Planet» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by Vintage in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Barnaby Gaitlin, the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family, works at Rent-a-Back helping elderly people with their chores. Between his ex-wife, his daughter, and an almost pathological curiosity about other people's lives, he tries to find his place. Anne Tyler portrays with irony everyday life, family, and the possibility of starting over.
The work was originally published in 1998; this Vintage paperback edition is from March 1999.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and book clubs looking for character-driven novels about family life.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
