Ladder of Years
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407016054
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 448
Anne Tyler is a writer of immaculate delicacy
Observer
Anne Tyler is a writer of immaculate delicacy
Observer
Anne Tyler's novels have three qualities that make them special: they are funny, they are sad, they are intelligent
Nick Hornby
Another winner from Anne Tyler
Independent
Another winner from Anne Tyler
Independent
Dialogue top-rate, people alive to their fingertips, places as real as next door - you don't get a finer comedy of manners than this
Mail on Sunday
Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page. Ladder of Years ruefully contemplates the unhaltable passage of time. But, scintillating with joie de vivre, it also offers an intensely appealing way of passing it
Sunday Times
Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page…scintillating with joie de vivre
Sunday Times
Her best book yet
Roddy Doyle
It is difficult to imagine a writer so prodigiously gifted
Herald
It is difficult to imagine a writer so prodigiously gifted; her work appears to be effortless. She is one of the most accomplished and impressive novelists of her generation, one of the very few contemporary writers one reads with a real sense of discovery
Herald
So rigorous and artful is the style without a style, so measured and delicate is each observation, so complex is the structure and so astute and open the language, that the reader can relax, feel secure in the narrative and experience the work as something real and natural
New York Times
The beauty is in the details
Sunday Times
Utterly compelling…wonderfully satisfying...virtually flawless
Chicago Tribune
Wonderfully satisfying... Virtually flawless
Chicago Tribune