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Morgan's Passing
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  • Published: 4 October 1991
  • ISBN: 9780099527206
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99

Morgan's Passing

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

Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an outsider.

Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit. He likes to pretend to be other people - a jockey, a shipping magnate, a foreign art dealer - and he likes to do this more and more since his massive brood of daughters are all growing up, getting married and finding him embarrassing. Then comes his first dramatic encounter with Emily and Leon Meredith, and the start of an extraordinary obsession.

**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: 4 October 1991
  • ISBN: 9780099527206
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • 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, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

portrait photo of Anne Tyler

Also by Anne Tyler

Three Days in June
French Braid
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Anne Tyler: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years & The Amateur Marriage
Clock Dance
Half-truths and Semi-miracles
Vinegar Girl
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Praise for Morgan's Passing

Pure magic, a contemporary fairy tale that overflows with affection, mystery and laughter

Washington Star

Tyler has created a world of imaginary people who are as tangible and as real as one's own friends and relatives

New York Times

Tyler writes stunningly well

Daily Telegraph

Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good

John Updike

Enchanting

The Times

Alternatively lyrical and rambunctiously comic

Washington Post

An almost flawless story of love... Moran emerges as a true hero

Los Angeles Times