by Anne Tyler · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780449003985
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«A Patchwork Planet» is the novel by Anne Tyler published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in hardback (304 pages, in English).
Barnaby Gaitlin tries to rebuild his life after a past of break-ins: he works for Rent-a-Back helping elderly people with household chores. Eleven years later, Barnaby's family still hasn't forgiven him, his ex-wife limits visits to his daughter Opal, and the trust of a new relationship is put to the test.
Anne Tyler's fourteenth novel; the action takes place in Baltimore. It falls within literary and family fiction.
For readers of literary and family fiction, with an imperfect protagonist and a tone of compassionate humor.
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.
