num_pages: 192
description: "Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place."NEWSDAYEvie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....
language: English
title: A Slipping-Down Life
titlecomplete: A Slipping-Down Life
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Female Authors, Music, 20th Century, Novels, The United States Of America, American
ratings_count: 4389
publisher: Ivy Books