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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. woman who reaches a point in her life when she must leave her family life and start her own - this while vacationing with her family and she just leaves - along the way she sends letters back to them but continues her own life (  )gardener2510 | Feb 16, 2009 |   A very entertaining novel which worried me too. ( )Tifi | Nov 19, 2008 | I've never forgotten the opening of this, when a missing woman's family is unable to accurately describe her. An excellent view of the complacency that sometimes occurs within families. ( )banderson1973 | Nov 2, 2008 | 1  Ladder of Years is one of my favorite books ever. The idea of just walking away from everything and beginning again where nobody knows you is such an intriguing idea and wonderfully written by Anne Tyler. (  )caroline123 | Sep 21, 2008 | I don't know why I enjoy Anne Tyler as much as I do. All her books focus on a middle-aged woman living in Baltimore, usually with 3 children who are screwed up in some way or another, and not alot actually happens. However, her writing really is impressive. This book is my favorite, just because the story is the most interesting of all her books that I've read. I'm always a sucker for a person who just decides to completely abandon the life they are living. (  )bardin | Sep 21, 2008 | 0.047 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0804113475, Mass Market Paperback)"UTTERLY COMPELLING . . . WONDERFULLY SATISFYING . . . VIRTUALLY FLAWLESS."--Chicago Tribune BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking away from it all" is not a premeditated act but an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life. . . . "TYLER DETAILS DELIA'S ADVENTURE WITH GREAT SKILL. . . . As so often in her earlier fiction, [she] creates distinct characters caught in poignantly funny situations. . . . Tyler writes with a clarity that makes the commonplace seem fresh and the pathetic touching." --The New York Times (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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