by Anne Tyler · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099598480
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«A Spool of Blue Thread» is Anne Tyler's family novel, published by Random House UK in paperback (480 pages, in English).
The story opens with Abby and Red on the porch of their Baltimore house, as the family gathers to decide how to care for them. From there it moves back through four generations of the Whitshanks, from the grandparents who arrived in the 1920s to the grandchildren of the 21st century, revealing the secrets and moments that define the family.
It was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize and the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award.
For readers of family sagas and contemporary literary fiction, and for book clubs seeking stories about bonds and memory.
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.
