With wondrous observations and bittersweet humor, the beloved best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author tells the story of an unsuspecting young woman who becomes the North star that helps a stumbling, dysfunctional family find its footing.
Mrs. Emerson, widowed with seven adult children, lives alone in crumbling Victorian mansion outside Baltimore with only a collection of antique clocks to keep her company. Elizabeth Abbott-twenty-three years old, aimless, bohemian, and beautiful-leads a vagabond lifestyle until she happens upon Mrs. Emerson's home and convinces the older woman to hire her as a handyman. When three of the strange, idiosyncratic Emerson children return to their childhood home for a visit, they are irresistibly drawn to Elizabeth.
ISBN: | 9780449911792 |
Publication date: | 27th August 1996 |
Author: | Anne Tyler |
Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 312 pages |
Series: | 1st Ballantine Books Trade Ed. |
Genres: |
General Fiction Narrative theme: Interior life Family Drama |