num_pages: 311
description: Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit. He likes to pretend to be other people - a jockey, a shipping magnate, a foreign art dealer - and he likes to do this more and more since his massive brood of daughters are all growing up, getting married and finding him embarrassing. Then comes his first dramatic encounter with Emily and Leon Meredith, and the start of an extraordinary obsession. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD ‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty ‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan ‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve ‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike ‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner ‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty
language: English
title: Morgan's Passing
titlecomplete: Morgan's Passing
genres: Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, The United States Of America, American, Womens, Literary Fiction, Literature, Relationships, Novels
ratings_count: 4949
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Paperback)
publisher: Knopf