07407cam a2200517 4500 235435131 TxAuBib 20140807120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101874288 1101874287 B00MSS0WVY Amazon 09eeb91a-cc67-4c52-8ac2-873725956685 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1929917 OverDrive (Product ID) 246387 1929917 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tyler, Anne. A Spool of Blue Thread [Libby] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2119kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. "Graceful and capacious . . . Quintessential Anne Tyler, as well as quintessential American comedy. Tyler has a knack for turning sitcom situations into something far deeper and more moving. Her great gift is playing against the American dream, the dark side of which is the falsehood at its heart: that given hard work and good intentions, any family can attain the Norman Rockwell ideal of happiness . . . She's a comic novelist, and a wise one.". HTML:New York Times Book Review. "Anne Tyler's novels are invitations to spend time in the houses of the Baltimore neighborhood that she has built--house by house, block by block, word by word--over her long and bright career.". HTML:Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books. "Tyler has proved again and again that a chronicle of middle-class family life in Baltimore can illuminate the human condition as acutely as any novel of ideas, albeit with a more modest demeanor . . . The Whitshanks [are] rendered with such immediacy and texture that they might be our next-door neighbors.". HTML:Los Angeles Times. HTML:"Happily, A Spool of Blue Thread is a throwback to the meaty family dramas with which Tyler won her popularity in the 1980s . . . As in the best of her novels, she here extends her warmest affection to the erring, the inconstant, and the mismatched--the people who are 'like anybody else,' in Red's words.". HTML:Wall Street Journal. "An act of literary enchantment . . . How can it be so wonderful? . . . Tyler remains among the best chroniclers of family life this country has ever produced . . . Some of the most lovely and loving writing Tyler has ever done.". HTML:Washington Post. HTML:"It's been a long time since I read a book I wished would not end, purposely slowing my progress to save a bit for later. A Spool of Blue Thread was that kind of book . . . The Whitshanks are us, in a way, and this makes them endlessly interesting to watch, as well as very touching.". HTML:Newsday. "Well-built, homey and unpretentious . . . Readers of any age should have no trouble relating . . . We can only hope that Tyler will continue spooling out her colorful Baltimore tales for a long time to come.". NPR.org. "Among her finest . . . There's no novelist living today who writes more insightfully (and often humorously) than Tyler does about the fictions and frictions of family life.". HTML:Baltimore Sun. HTML:"A Spool of Blue Thread deserves to stand among Tyler's best writing." --Christian Science Monitor "Tyler is easily the closest we have to an American Chekhov . . . [Her] books will outlive us all . . . Tyler has rarely been given credit as subversive, because her style is so simple, direct, and sincere. But the stories she tells often detonate their own structure, and resonate long after many more superficially dazzling novels have faded . . . No one has been doing it longer, and by now no one does it better." --Buffalo News "In warm, lucid prose, Tyler skips back and forth through the twentieth century to depict the Whitshanks.". HTML:The New Yorker. HTML:"Fifty years, and Tyler's still got it . . . [She] is a master at creating clans; at crafting groups of diverse characters who nonetheless belong together, who seem vulnerable and honest and real . . . I couldn't put A Spool of Blue Thread down.". HTML:Seattle Times. HTML:"The extraordinary thing about all her writing is the extent to which she makes one believe every word, deed, and breath. A Spool of Blue Thread is no exception. [It keeps] one as absorbed as if it were one's own family she were describing, and as if what happened to them were necessary reading . . . What she has that neither Marilynne Robinson nor Alice Munro possess to the same degree is an irrepressible sense of the comedy beneath even the most melancholy surface . . . Such a joy.". HTML:The Guardian. HTML:"Deeply moving . . . A Spool of Blue Thread is a miracle of sorts, a tender, touching and funny story about three generations of an ordinary American family who are, of course, anything but . . . Tyler's accomplishment in this understated masterpiece is to convince us not only that the Whitshanks are remarkable but also that every family--no matter how seemingly ordinary-- HTML:Associated Press. HTML:Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . ." This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. 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, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor. Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler's work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:42. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=09eeb91a-cc67-4c52-8ac2-873725956685 https://samples.overdrive.com/spool-of-blue?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/spool-of-blue?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/spool-of-blue?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) CCTYL