A Slipping-Down Life

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 5, 2011 - Fiction - 192 pages
“To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love.” —People

The beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author brings us the story of Evie Decker, a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell—and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....

“Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place.”
—Newsweek

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About the author (2011)

ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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