by Anne Tyler · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099437741
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«Back When We Were Grownups» is the contemporary fiction novel by Anne Tyler, published by Vintage in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Rebecca Davitch, 53, has devoted herself to throwing parties in the family home in Baltimore. After being widowed, she wonders if she is living the life she truly wanted and what might have happened if she had stayed with her youthful boyfriend. Humour and melancholy combine in this novel about identity, family and life choices.
For readers of contemporary fiction who prefer character-driven novels and family portraits.
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.
