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A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2015-02-10
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Sagas
Fiction / Family Life / General
ISBN
1101874287
9781101874288
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=e_VMBAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Clock Dance
comes the story of four generations unfolding in and around the lovingly worn house that has always been the Whitshank family's anchor.
• MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE
“Absorbing and deeply satisfying.” —
Entertainment Weekly
"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon ...” This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959.
From Red’s parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, the Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets.