The Beginner's Goodbye

From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. The Beginner's Goodbye is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style

Informationen zum Autor Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons , The Accidental Tourist , Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant , Ladder of Years , Back When We Were Grown-ups , Digging to America , A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Klappentext The story of 2 ordinary people so intertwined that they can't be separated, even by death. From the much acclaimed and bestselling author of "The Accidental Tourist, The Amateur Marriage" and "Noah's Compass", who has twice been shortlisted for the Orange Prize. 'A near flawless novel of love and loss... exquisitely poignant but unsentimental' Rosemary Goring, "Sunday Herald" Zusammenfassung When Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron that some people simply didnâ™t notice. The accident that killed Dorothy â involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits â leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck.

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From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. The Beginner's Goodbye is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style

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Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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The story of 2 ordinary people so intertwined that they can't be separated, even by death. From the much acclaimed and bestselling author of "The Accidental Tourist, The Amateur Marriage" and "Noah's Compass", who has twice been shortlisted for the Orange Prize. 'A near flawless novel of love and loss... exquisitely poignant but unsentimental' Rosemary Goring, "Sunday Herald"

Résumé

When Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron that some people simply didn't notice.

The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. As those around him fuss and flap and bring him casserole after casserole, Aaron ploughs on. But then Dorothy starts to materialise in the oddest places. At first, she only comes for a short while, leaving Aaron longing for more. Gradually she stays for longer, and as they talk, they also bicker and the cracks that were present in their perfectly ordinary marriage start to reappear...

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