5/8/2023 0 Comments A spool of blue thread reviewThe breadth and depth of the knowledge deployed in her books don't extend beyond what's available to her characters, a mostly homey sort.Īnd yet, however modest they are or circumscribed their lives, the people in Tyler's books are engaged with the critical question - how to live? - and somehow manage to be entertaining while they're at it. Her work is short on pyrotechnics (although the most sophisticated of our post-post-moderns would be hard pressed to match her wit, so perfectly timed and subtly tuned as to seem self-effacing). Grad students, for the most part, are not going to huddle in coffee shops talking Tyler hermeneutics (although a person could spend some time on the surname in this particular novel, "Whitshank"). For these, I'd say that Anne Tyler's "problem" is that she's too readable. So this review is aimed at the uninitiated, the holdouts and the skeptics. You legion of lovers of Anne Tyler are going to get this new novel of hers and love it, too.
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