Anne Tyler Książki

Życie Macona Leary'ego jest zorganizowane z precyzją zegara. Dzień po dniu jego egzystencja toczy się według starannie ustalonych zasad, między pisaniem przewodników turystycznych dla biznesmenów, spacerami z Edwardem, sympatycznym, lekko neurotycznym pieskiem, a ciągłym doskonaleniem swoich nawyków. Nawet ból, spowodowany tragiczną śmiercią syna i późniejszym porzuceniem przez żonę, wydaje się nie naruszać uporządkowanego świata Macona. Jednak los ma dla niego niespodziankę. Nazywa się Muriel Pritchett, ma burzę nieokiełznanych loków, dziecko potrzebujące opieki i jest wirującym chaosem. Żadne opory, cierpliwość, metoda ani ucieczka nie będą miały znaczenia; życie przyszło, a Macon nie może się już ukrywać.

Contains: The Accidental Tourist; Breathing Lessons; Searching for Caleb.

Short Stories by Ann Tyler, Bill Barich, John Updike, Carolyn Chute, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and many others.

An early triumph from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and Saint Maybe. Duncan Peck is a restless man, constantly moving his family. His wife Justine is a fortune teller. Her grandfather is on a quest for the brother he lost in 1912. Soon, all three of them will journey back to the family's deepest roots. Previous publisher: Avon paperback. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Meet the Tull family...Jenny, the daughter, high-spirited and determined. She was nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loved...cody, the oldest son. He was wild and incorrigible, possessed by the lure of power and money...Ezra, the gentle son. He was his mother's favorite, living out the dream of a "perfect" family that could never be his own...gathering around the memories of Pearl, their mother, whose final act of life affirms their own.

"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love." PEOPLE Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery--and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate....

"An almost flawless story of love...Morgan emerges as a true hero." LOS ANGELES TIMES Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets two lovely young newlyweds under some rather extreme circumstances--and all three discover that no one's heart is safe....

On a beach holiday, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in swimsuit and beachrobe, walks away from her family and just keeps on walking ...

By the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Breathing Lessons", this is the tale of Jeremy Pauling, a 38-year-old bachelor who has never left home. The death of his mother leaves him in charge of a ramshackle boarding house and the arrival of a female lodger brings him a challenge he can't handle.

The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. However when she comes back from the dead, the cracks that reappear in their marriage are a poignant reminder that life may move on, but some things will forever remain the same.

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes.

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste.

Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly. He measures out his days running errands for work, maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady balance of his life. But then the order of things starts to tilt. And when a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son, Micah is confronted with another surprise he seems poorly equipped to handle...

In a small Southern town teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands.

Barnaby Gaitlin is a loser - just short of thirty he's the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family. Once upon a time he had a home, a loving wife, a little family of his own; now he has an ex-wife, a 9-year-old daughter with attitude, a Corvette Sting Ray that's a collectors item but unreliable, and he works as hired muscle for Rent-a-Back, doing heavy chores for old folks. He has an almost pathological curiosity about other people's lives, which has got him into serious trouble in the past, and a hopeles charm which attracts the kind of angelic woman who wants to save him from himself. Tyler's observation is more acute and more delicious than ever; her humour slyer and more irresistible; her characters so vividly realised that you feel you've known this quirky collection for ever. With perfect pitch and poise, humor and humanity, Anne Tyler chronicals, better than any writer today, the sublime and the rediculous of everyday living, the foibles and frailties of the ordinary human heart.

Liam Pennywell, a disillusioned fifth-grade teacher, faces an unsettling mystery after waking in the hospital with no recollection of his first night in a new condo. As he grapples with his memory loss, he embarks on a quest to uncover the lost moments of his life. Seeking help, he discovers unexpected twists that lead him away from his original goal. This journey intertwines themes of identity, memory, and the search for understanding in the face of personal turmoil.

In Breathing Lessons, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989, we meet the harum-scarum Maggie, married for 28 years to competent, infallible Ira. On a hot summer day they are driving to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, 90 miles from their home in Baltimore, to the funeral of a friend. During the course of that journey, with its several unexpected detours, Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage: the expectations and disappointments; the way children can create storms in a family; and the way that a wife and husband can fall in love all over again.

Eccentric characters and pitch-perfect dialogue define this exploration of love and second chances. Gail Baines faces a tumultuous time as her ex-husband, Max, unexpectedly arrives for their daughter's wedding, stirring up memories and emotions. Over three eventful days, the narrative delves into family dynamics, revealing how the younger generation can offer valuable lessons on acceptance and resilience. With a blend of humor and sensitivity, this novel captures the complexities of marriage and family life, making it a poignant read.

A touchingly funny tale from the Pultizer Prize-winning author of Saint Maybe. Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a large, cheerful family of women. But when one of his sisters takes her baby and leaves her husband, everything--including his perceptions of the past--changes. Phenomenal.--The New York Times.

The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, 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 familys 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 closeyet how unknowableevery family is to itself

Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.” Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport – the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the instant babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate: an “arrival party” that from then on is repeated every year as the two families become more and more deeply intertwined. Even Maryam is drawn in – up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by Bitsy Donaldson’s recently widowed father, all the values she cherishes – her traditions, her privacy, her otherness–are suddenly threatened. A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that immerse us in the challenges of both sides of the American story.

Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was 11 and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at 21, the accident that would make her a widow at 41. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman - and her nine-year-old daughter, and her dog -- will lead Willa into uncharted territory. Surrounded by new and surprising neighbours, she is plunged into the rituals that make a community, and takes pleasure in the most unexpected things. A bittersweet novel of hope and regret, fulfilment and renewal, Clock Dance brings us the everyday life of a woman who decides it's never too late to change direction, and choose your own path. 'What Tyler does best is to illuminate that life is not about what one achieves but how one gets to that point; and that the most meaningful moments are not always memorable ones but the interstitial spaces and everyday conversations between ordinary people' Jodi Picoult

After losing her husband in a car accident, Rebecca asks herself whether she is an imposter in her own life. Is she really the joyous and outgoing celebrator that her family think she is?

Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don't have to be a perfect match to work. "Anne Tyler is a magical writer." LOS ANGELES TIMES From the Paperback edition.

Baltimore, July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those unique families that radiate togetherness, as their lives unfold in a lovingly worn house that has always been their anchor. But like all families, the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture . . . A tender, touching and funny story about three generations of an ordinary American family ... Tyler's accomplishment ... is to convince us not only that the Whitshanks are remarkable but also that every family--no matter how seemingly ordinary--is in its own way special. --Associated Press

Could the taming of Shakespeare's shrew, Katherina, happen today? Find out in this funny, off-beat version from one of our most beloved novelists. "You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that." Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work--her preschool charges adore her, but the adults don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There's only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr.... When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he's relying--as usual--on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he's really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men's touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round? Anne Tyler's retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man. Its answer is as individual, off-beat, and funny as Kate herself.

In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is forced to come out of his long, comfortable silence. Then there is ten-year-old Simon, who is suddenly without a baby sister -- and without understanding why she's gone. Those closest to this shattered family must learn to comfort them -- and confront their own private shadows of hidden grief. If time cannot draw them out of the dark, then love may be their only hope....

This omnibus edition of three full-length novels captures Anne Tyler's acerbic affection and compassionate clarity, the tragicomic shifts, the range of eccentricities and compromises, whereby the average family struggles to keep life under control. Her latest novel is "Saint Maybe".

This study guide provides a comprehensive analysis of "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant," featuring a detailed plot summary and character insights. It includes an author biography, study questions, and historical context to enhance understanding. Additionally, the guide offers suggestions for further reading, making it a valuable resource for literature projects and research.

Reštaurácia je rovnako jedinečná ako život jej majiteľa. Jeho reštaurácia je mu útočiskom aj miestom úniku. Radšej chce byť samotárom bez domova ako by sa mal podrobiť tuctovým konvenciám dobrých a spoľahlivých občanov , ktorí zničili životy jeho najbližších. Ezra nie je sám ani vo svojej osamelosti.

«Случайный турист» – один из самых известных романов Энн Тайлер. И это снова семейная история – о вечном конфликте мужского и женского начала, о попытках обрести себя, не вылезая из собственной скорлупы, и их тщетности. Мэйкон Лири пишет путеводители, но он ненавидит путешествия всей душой. Его путеводители – коллекции сведений о том, как в очередной вынужденной и невыносимой поездке ощутить себя как дома, минимизировать вмешательство в твою жизнь чужого и неприятного мира. На долю Мэйкона и его жены выпала страшная трагедия – бессмысленная гибель сына-подростка. С тех пор их брак стремительно разваливается. Отныне каждый пойдет своим путем – случайные туристы, бредущие куда глаза глядят в надежде, что однажды встретят попутчика. Печальный и смешной роман американского классика о том, как страшное и комичное шагают рука об руку, как привычки пытаются заглушить жизнь, как в обыденном таится ужас, а в неведомом – надежда, а может быть, наоборот. Роман был номинирован на Пулитцеровскую премию. Книга была экранизирована, фильм удостоился премии Нью-йоркской ассоциации критиков, а актриса Джина Дэвис получила премию «Оскар».

Der etwas seltsame, aber durchaus charmante Mr Leary schreibt Reiseführer für Leute, die geschäftlich unterwegs sein müssen, das Reisen aber hassen – ganz wie er selbst! Sein höchstes Ziel ist es, Tipps zu geben, dank denen man sich möglichst wie zu Hause fühlt. Als seine Frau Sarah beschließt, ihn nach zwanzig Jahren Ehe zu verlassen, gerät sein höchst organisiertes Leben ins Wanken. Ein Problem wird auch sein schlecht erzogener Hund, um den er sich nicht ununterbrochen kümmern kann. Muriel, eine junge, chaotische Frau, die eigentlich seinen Hund erziehen soll, interessiert sich mehr und mehr für Mr Leary selbst. Wäre für ihn ein Leben mit ihr denkbar? Oder sollte es doch wieder Sarah sein?