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Earthly Possessions
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  • Published: 2 June 1989
  • ISBN: 9780099463702
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99

Earthly Possessions

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2 June 1989
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A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time

'A skilful novel by a writer in full flight from the obvious' Observer

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour. But Charlotte is about to escape in a way she never expected, as a young bank robber takes her hostage, and they head south for Florida in a stolen car.

**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce

'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali

'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks

'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson
  • Published: 2 June 1989
  • ISBN: 9780099463702
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Anne Tyler

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, A Spool of Blue Thread, Redhead by the Side of the Road and Three Days in June. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'.
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Three Days in June
French Braid
Redhead by the Side of the Road
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Clock Dance
Half-truths and Semi-miracles
Vinegar Girl
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Praise for Earthly Possessions

My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world, is Anne Tyler... Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive

Nick Hornby, Independent on Sunday

Funny and moving

The Times

A skilful novel by a writer in full flight from the obvious

Observer

Wickedly good

John Updike