by Anne Tyler · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099479413
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«Ladder of Years» is the contemporary fiction novel by Anne Tyler, published by Vintage in paperback (336 pages, in English).
During a beach vacation, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead leaves her family behind and accepts a ride from a stranger who takes her to a town where she knows no one. There she embarks on a life as a single, free woman, but the novel asks how long that new life can last before her old one catches up with her.
The work was originally published in 1995 by Chatto & Windus; the Vintage edition is from 1996.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction interested in family life, identity, and personal relationships.
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.
