A Slipping-Down Life
“TO READ A NOVEL BY ANNE TYLER IS TO FALL IN LOVE.”—People“Anne Tyler is a wise and perceptive writer with a warm understanding of human foible.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch“All of Tyler’s novels are wonderful.”—Newsweek“One of the most beguiling and mesmerizing writers in America.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer“Not merely good . . . She is wickedly good!”—John Updike“A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . .  A very funny writer. . . Not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.”—Newsweek“Tyler’s characters have character: quirks, odd angles of vision, colorful mean streaks and harmonic longings.”—Time“Her people are triumphantly alive.”—The New York Times“Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place.”—NewsweekFrom the Paperback edition.