by Anne Tyler · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099272687
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«A Patchwork Planet» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by Vintage in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Barnaby Gaitlin, the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family, divorced and with a daughter, does jobs for the elderly at Rent-a-Back. The arrival of Sophia seems to offer Barnaby a new beginning, but he must leave his past behind. It is a novel about family, redemption and everyday life, with humor and humanity.
It is Anne Tyler's fourteenth novel, published in 1999; the story is set in Baltimore.
For readers of contemporary and family fiction, interested in imperfect characters and second chances.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
