by Anne Tyler · Guanda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788882463571
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«Quando eravamo grandi» is Anne Tyler's novel published by Guanda in paperback (275 pages, in Italian).
Rebecca Davitch, at 53, discovers that her life is not the one she would have wanted: she gave up her studies and her boyfriend very young to marry an older man, father of three girls, and when widowed she took charge of the family and the catering business. She wonders what her life would have been like and feels the temptation to reunite with her youthful love.
Novel translated from English by Laura Pignatti; originally published as «Back When We Were Grownups» (2001). Belongs to the Narratori della Fenice collection.
For those who enjoy Anne Tyler's fiction and seek an Italian edition of a novel about family and life decisions.
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.
