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Back When We Were Grownups

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anne TylerSeries:Ballantine Reader's CirclePublish date:2002-04-09Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780345446862ISBN-10:345446860UPC:9780345446862Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, SagasSize:8.16 x 5.54 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCR6BEZ3J6
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother.

"You'll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last." --PEOPLE

On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation--something she married into after Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family's crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was his family business. What caught Joe's fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time.

Soon this large-spirited divorcé with three little girls swept Beck into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family--plus a child of their own--and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms.

Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family party, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. Is she an impostor in her own life? Is it indeed her own life? How she answers--how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been--is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780345446862ISBN-10:345446860UPC:9780345446862Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, SagasSize:8.16 x 5.54 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCR6BEZ3J6
ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Publisher: Vintage

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