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Titre: A Spool of Blue Thread Condition: Neuf Sous titres: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2015 Auteur: Anne Tyler Format: Poche ISBN-10: 0099598485 EAN: 9780099598480 ISBN: 9780099598480 Publisher: Vintage Genre: Fiction Sujet: Historical Fiction Date de publication: 2015-09-03 Description: **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...'
This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer's day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.
From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red's father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red's grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century - four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home...
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'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson Sujet: Anglais Pays/Région de fabrication: GB Item Height: 198 Item Length: 129.00 Item Width: 28.00 Poids: 330g Année de publication: 2015 Information manquante?
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