A Patchwork Planet - Hardcover

Tyler, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037540256X ISBN 13: 9780375402562

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

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Book by Tyler Anne

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In her fourteenth work of fiction, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Breathing Lessons tells the story of Baltimore's Barnaby Gaitlin, a furniture mover with a history of misdemeanors and a fair-weather girlfriend. 250,000 first printing.

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fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.
        Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos.
        But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on an even keel.
        Still, the Gaitlins (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buying off Barnaby's former victims. And his ex-wife wou

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 037540256X
• ISBN 13: 9780375402562
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 287