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A Patchwork Planet

Although Barnaby Gaitlin has been "working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins," his past "habit of breaking into other people's houses" seems destined to ruin his life again.--Jacket.

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  • "A patchwork planet"@it
  • "A patchwork planet"@ja

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  • "Although Barnaby Gaitlin has been "working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins," his past "habit of breaking into other people's houses" seems destined to ruin his life again.--Jacket."
  • "Although Barnaby Gaitlin has been "working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins," his past "habit of breaking into other people's houses" seems destined to ruin his life again.--Jacket."@en
  • ""Barnaby Gaitlin is a loser - just short of thirty, he's the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family. Once upon a time, he had a home, a loving wife, a little family of his own; now he has an ex-wife, a 9-year old daughter with attitude, a Corvette Sting Ray that's a collector's item but unreliable, and he works as hired muscle for Rent-a-Back, doing heavy chores for old folks. He has an almost pathological curiosity about other people's lives, which has got him into serious trouble in the past, and a hopeless charm which attracts the kind of angelic woman who wants to save him from himself. Tyler's observation is more acute, more delicious than ever; her humour slyer and more irresistible; her characters so vividly realised that you feel you've known this quirky collection for ever. With perfect pitch and poise, humour and humanity, Anne Tyler chronicles, better than any writer today, the sublime and the ridiculous of everyday living, the foibles and frailties of the ordinary human heart."
  • "A lovable loser tries to get his life in order. He is Barnaby Gaitlin, 30, the black sheep of a rich Baltimore family, ex-juvenile delinquent who specialized in housebreaking for kicks. He works for Rent-a-Back, moving furniture for old people, and dreams of having a future."@en
  • "A lovable loser tries to get his life in order. He is Barnaby Gaitlin, 30, the black sheep of a rich Baltimore family, ex-juvenile delinquent who specialized in housebreaking for kicks. He works for Rent-a-Back, moving furniture for old people, and dreams of having a future."
  • "In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos.But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on an even keel.Still, the Gaitlins (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buying off Barnaby's former victims. And his ex-wife would just as soon he didn't show up ever to visit their little girl, Opal. Even the nice, steady woman (his guardian angel?) who seems to have designs on him doesn't fully trust him, it develops, when the chips are down, and it looks as though his world may fall apart again.There is no one like Anne Tyler, with her sharp, funny, tender perceptions about how human beings navigate on a puzzling planet, and she keeps us enthralled from start to finish in this delicious new novel.From the Paperback edition."@en
  • "Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos. But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on an even keel. Still, the Gaitlins (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buying off Barnaby's former victims. And his ex-wife would just as soon he didn't show up ever to visit their little girl, Opal. Even the nice, steady woman (his guardian angel?) who seems to have designs on him doesn't fully trust him, it develops, when the chips are down, and it looks as though his world may fall apart again."@en
  • "A seuil de ses 30 ans, Barnaby Gaitlin, divorcé et père d'une fillette de 9 ans, se considère comme un parfait loser. Pourtant il travaille pour une société d'aide à domicile où il a acquis une réputation d'homme de confiance, malgré son passé. Mais il demeure aux yeux des siens l'homme qui a sali l'honneur de la famille. Sa rencontre avec Sophia, sérieuse et rangée pourrait changer cette image."
  • "Follows a loveable loser and occasional thief as he tries to reform under the influence of a decent young woman."
  • "Barnaby Gaitlin works as hired muscle, doing heavy chores for old folks. His pathological curiosity for other people's lives gets him into trouble time and again, but his charm appeals to the kind of woman who wants to save him from himself."@en
  • "Barnaby, a loser, used to break into people's houses to steal their mementos, read their mail and view their photo albums. Although he has been working for eleven years now, it seems that his world may fall apart again."@en

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"

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  • "Engel søges"
  • "Engel søges"@da
  • "Engel gesucht"
  • "A Patchwork Planet"
  • "A Patchwork Planet"@en
  • "Le storie degli altri"
  • "Le storie degli altri"@it
  • "Engel gesucht : Roman"
  • "パッチワーク・プラネット"
  • "Un mundo roto"
  • "A patchwork planet / M"
  • "A patchwork planet"
  • "A patchwork planet"@en
  • "Oikukas planeetta"
  • "Oikukas planeetta"@fi
  • "Fekete bárány"
  • "Fekete bárány"@hu
  • "De patchwork planeet"
  • "Patchiwāku puranetto"
  • "Patchiwāku puranetto"@ja
  • "Le storie degli altri : romanzo"@it
  • "Le storie degli altri : romanzo"
  • "Rozsypaný svet"
  • "Et la vie va presque droite : roman"
  • "Lapptäcksplaneten"
  • "Lapptäcksplaneten"@sv
  • "Le storie degli altri : [romanzo]"

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