No other writer captures like Anne Tyler, with acerbic affection and compassionate clarity, the shifts and defences of the average family struggling to keep life under control. This first omnibus edition of three full-length novels, all set in the respectable Baltimore streets she has made so particularly her own, encompasses the range of eccentricities and compromises to which they are driven. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant follows the disintegration and eventual reaffirmation of the Tull family - fierce, embittered Pearl, left by Beck to raise handsome, thrusting Cody, Jenny, the pediatrician losing herself in devotion to others, and docile Ezra, whose attempts to unite them all around a table at his eccentric Homesick Restaurant are the focus of their differences and their bond. In The Accidental Tourist, Macon - a man of habit and routine, who writes guide books for businessmen who hate to leave home - is confronted by chaos in his own family life. Between aching sadness and glorious absurdity, Macon hesitantly emerges from his sage cocoon into the vibrant, unpredictable world of the outrageous Muriel... And Breathing Lessons, which won the Pulitzer Prize, lays bare the anatomy of a marriage. On the round trip to a friend's funeral, Maggie and Ira Moran make detours literal and metaphorical - into the lives of grown children, old friends, total strangers and their own past - and, despite Ira's disappointments and Maggie's optimistic determination to rearrange life as she would like it to be, an old married couple fall in love all over again.
Inhalt:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild. “A quietly subversive novel, tackling fundamental assumptions about womanhood, motherhood and female aging.” —The New York Times Book Review The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation. Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close—yet how unknowable—every family is to itself. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-0-593-32110-2
Inhalt: Es beginnt an einem Montagnachmittag im Kriegsjahr 1941: Ein Mädchen im roten Mantel betritt den Lebensmittelladen von Michaels Mutter und um Michael ist es geschehen. Unter den aufmerksamen Blicken der Nachbarschaft werden er und Pauline ein Paar. Doch was als große Liebe anfängt, muss keineswegs als glückliche Ehe enden: Die lebhafte Pauline, die spontan und mit vollem Risiko durch die Welt stürmt, und der ruhige, überlegte Michael, der für den Laden und seine Familie lebt, haben ganz unterschiedliche Wünsche und Träume. Dennoch heiraten sie, bekommen drei Kinder und kämpfen unaufhörlich gegeneinander. Zwei Menschen, die das Schicksal aneinander gebunden haben und die ohne den anderen wohl glücklicher wären. Die Geschichte einer dramatisch verunglückten Ehe und einer großen Liebe. Schlagworte:Beziehung, Ehe, Liebe Umfang: 343 Min. ISBN: 978-3-8449-0204-4
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