num_pages: 224
description: "To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."PEOPLECharlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery--and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate....
language: English
title: Earthly Possessions
titlecomplete: Earthly Possessions
genres: Fiction, Womens Fiction, 20th Century, Contemporary, The United States Of America, American, Literary Fiction, Adult, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 4436
publisher: Ivy Books