A Slipping-Down Life
Severn House, 1983. First British Edition. Cloth. Near Fine+ / Near Fine in Plastic Cover. Item #5112
ISBN: 0727809172
A lovely First Edition (U.K.) in dark maroon cloth. In Near Fine+ condition with a tiny rubbed spot on the lower cover edge the only flaw. The Near Fine dustjacket is complete with the original price and very slight toning to the white panels. A wonderful copy. By the author of "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant," "Saint Maybe," "The Accidental Tourist" and "Breathing Lessons" for which she won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
British Press has hailed Anne Tyler as "America's answer to Jane Austen." Rare to give interviews, Tyler spoke with journalist Kim Hubbard in 2022 at the age of 80 and commented on her style: "If you love a good war story, you won't be remotely interested in my books...Nothing's going on in them except time passing, and people being who they are....I write in order to feel what it would be like to be somebody else. Maybe my readers are the kind of people who want to sink into another life in the same way."
In "A Slipping-Down Life," a young, alienated teenager seeks the attentions of an older, talented musician and does what some might consider the unthinkable to herself to capture his gaze. The novel was adapted to a film of the same title in 1999, starring Guy Pearce.
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