by Anne Tyler · Alfred a Knopf Inc · tapa dura · ISBN 9780375402562
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«A Patchwork Planet» is the literary fiction novel by Anne Tyler, published by Alfred A. Knopf in hardback (287 pages, in English).
Barnaby Gaitlin, the black sheep of a well-off Baltimore family, tries to leave behind an adolescence marked by break-ins. For eleven years he has worked for Rent-a-Back helping elderly and sick people, but his past and his family's distrust threaten to derail his new life.
It was Anne Tyler's fourteenth novel.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction and reading groups interested in novels centred on 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.
