For the avid reader, discerning collector and real Anne Tyler - fan,
a new, signed 1st UK edition hardcover copy of
Anne Tyler
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Chattoo & Windus / Penguin, London / UK, 2020
"Discover an offbeat love story about mis-steps, second chances and
the elusive art of human connection from the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread.
Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His
numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he
has his ways and means of navigating the world. He measures out his days
running errands for work - his TECH HERMIT sign cheerily displayed on
the roof of his car - maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and
going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady
balance of his life.
But then the order of things starts to tilt. His woman friend Cassia
(he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a 'girlfriend') tells
him she's facing eviction because of a cat. And when a teenager shows up
at Micah's door claiming to be his son, Micah is confronted with
another surprise he seems poorly equipped to handle.
Redhead by the Side of the Road is an intimate look into the
heart and mind of a man who sometimes finds those around him just out of
reach - and a love story about the differences that make us all unique." (penguin.co.uk)
"If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?" BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour
"Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in
Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing
Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant,
Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The
Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar
Girl and Clock Dance. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing
Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as
'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the
Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue
Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys
Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize."
(penguin.co.uk)