The Clock Winder

by Anne Tyler

Overview

Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don't have to be a perfect match to work.

"Anne Tyler is a magical writer."

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307788443
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/26/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	276,167
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

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.

Hometown:

Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Birth:

October 25, 1941

Place of Birth:

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Education:

B.A., Duke University, 1961

Editorial Reviews

To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love.” —People

“Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her claim to be the Jane Austen of our age.” —The Daily Mail (London)

“Tyler has explored the oddities of humanity with a cool yet loving eye, finding unexpected depth in ordinary people and showing how they manage to hand on to each other despite all the forces that conspire to drive them apart.” —The Washington Post

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