Redhead by the Side of the Road: A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM by Amazonundefined

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*A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM*
A perfect love story for imperfect people.
Micah Mortimer measures out his days running errands for work, maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is in a long-term relationship with his woman friend Cassia, but they live apart. His carefully calibrated life is regular, steady, balanced.But then the order of things starts to tilt. Cassia is threatened with eviction, and when a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son, he is confronted with another surprise he seems poorly equipped to handle.Can Micah, a man to whom those around him always seem just out of reach, find a way back to his perfectly imperfect love story?
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020**
'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
Recenzja
Bursting with vitality and variety, it's a tour de force . . . characters almost leap off the page with authenticity, speech and body language wonderfully caught
Sunday Times
Tylers piercing omniscience is on full, enthralling display
Vanity Fair
A book this lovely feels practically heaven-sent. Crisp and direct, yet full of subtle touches, its a big-hearted tale of roads not taken a delight from start to finish
Daily Mail
Anne Tyler really is the best. This reads as if she wrote it in one flawless seamless sitting. The sheer brilliance of making it all seem so effortless -- Graham NortonAlmost unbearably poignant . . . a moving and perceptive story about one mans inability to connect with others and his gradual move towards greater self-fulfilment
Sunday Express
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Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world. He measures out his days running errands for work - his TECH HERMIT sign cheerily displayed on the roof of his car - maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady balance of his life. But then the order of things starts to tilt. His woman friend Cassia (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a 'girlfriend') tells him she's facing eviction because of a cat. And when a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son, Micah is confronted with another surprise he seems poorly equipped to handle. Redhead by the Side of the Road is an intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who sometimes finds those around him just out of reach - and a love story about the differences that make us all unique.
O autorze
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.
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