The clock winder
By: by Anne Tyler.
Series: 1st Ballantine Books trade ed.
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Mothers and sons -- Fiction; Mentally ill -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction
Description: Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons have a reputation for craziness, there are seven adult children, and Elizabeth finds herself drawn into their disorderly lives against her will. But in the end it is hard to tell whether she is a victim of the needy Emersons, or the de facto ruler of the family.