by Anne Tyler · L'Altra Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494348150
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«Un rodet de fil blau» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by L'Altra Editorial in paperback (432 pages, in Catalan).
Abby Whitshank tells once more how she met her husband Red in 1959 while the family listens on the porch. But now Abby and Red are older and a decision must be made about who will care for them and what will become of the house Red's father built with care. The novel spans three generations of the Whitshanks and their stories, secrets and everyday moments.
Catalan edition published in 2015; original title: «A Spool of Blue Thread»; translation by Marc Rubió i Rodon.
For readers of contemporary fiction and family portraits, also for reading groups.
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.
