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Ladder of years

A runaway wife leaves one domestic situation, only to fall into another. She is Delia Grinstead, 40, of Baltimore, the wife of a physician and mother of three. One day she decides she's had enough of being invisible, moves to another town and gets herself a job--caring for a boy whose mother has abandoned the family. By the author of Saint Maybe.

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  • "A runaway wife leaves one domestic situation, only to fall into another. She is Delia Grinstead, 40, of Baltimore, the wife of a physician and mother of three. One day she decides she's had enough of being invisible, moves to another town and gets herself a job--caring for a boy whose mother has abandoned the family. By the author of Saint Maybe."
  • "A runaway wife leaves one domestic situation, only to fall into another. She is Delia Grinstead, 40, of Baltimore, the wife of a physician and mother of three. One day she decides she's had enough of being invisible, moves to another town and gets herself a job--caring for a boy whose mother has abandoned the family. By the author of Saint Maybe."@en
  • "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 A 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 PREMEDIATED ACT BUT AN IMPULSE THAT WILL LEAD HER INTO A NEW, EXCITING AND UNIMAGINED LIFE."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE 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--Celestial Navigation, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and her nine other novels--(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"UTTERLY COMPELLING. . .WONDERFULLY SATISFYING. . .Ladder of Years is virtually flawless."--Chicago Tribune"A 'PAGE-TURNER' IN THE BEST SENSE . . . One wants to lightly caress the pages of the story because one cares for Ms. Tyler's touchingly flawed characters. . . . Both madcap and genteel, Anne Tyler knows as well as anyone that 'human beings lead many lives.' Casually, delightfully, Ladder of Years will tell you just how we humans manage this trick."--The Baltimore Sun."@en
  • "Delia Grinstead, the wife of a Baltimore physician, leaves her life as wife and mother and recreates her own world in a quiet little tree-lined town."
  • "A forty-year-old woman walks away from her marriage and family, hitches a ride to a different town, and invents a new life."@en
  • "A runaway wife leaves one domestic situation, only to fall into another. She is Delia Grinstead, 40, of Baltimore, the wife of a physician and mother of three. One day she decides she's had enough of being invisible, moves to another town and gets herself a job--caring for a boy whose mother has abandoned the family."@en
  • "Delia Grinstead, a 40-year-old wife and mother, walks away from her family one day and begins a completely new life."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Ladder of years : a novel"@en
  • "Ladder of Years A Novel"@en
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