|
 |
All orders
shipped by
airmail!
Click here for our
Shipping Policies!
| |
 | | |
"The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless."
- Paul Johnson
| | | |
|
ZIN Product Number: 10085464
| eBay (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 70 | | Price Range: | | $0.01 - 0.07 | | | | Craigslist (last 12 months) | | Classifieds: | | 13 | | Price Range: | | $0.01 - 0.08 | | | | Amazon Used (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 69 | | Price Range: | | $0.07 - 0.01 | | | | ZooScape (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 0 | | Price Range: | | N/A | | | | | | Google listings (non-affiliate) | | 103 | | MSN listings (non-affiliate) | | 39 | | Yahoo listings (non-affiliate) | | 13 | | |
| | 
| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover - LARGE PRINT BOOK,
Edition: LARGEPRINT
Publisher: Random House Large Print
ISBN: 0375431187
Release Date: Jan 5, 1990
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else's?
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 slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family's crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three little girls, swept her 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 picnic, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it—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.
| | | | From The Publisher
An irresistible new novel from Anne Tyler. At 53, Rebecca Davitch- mistress of The Open Arms, a crumbling 19th-century row house in Baltimore where giving parties is the family business-suddenly asks herself whether she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this natural-born celebrator; joyous and out-giving?
Certainly that's how Joe Davitch saw her 30-some years ago. And that's why this large-spirited older man, a divorce with three little girls, swept her into his orbit. 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 where people paid to celebrate their family occasions in style.
But can Beck (as she is known to the Davitch clan) really recover the person she has left behind? A question that touches us all-and one that Anne Tyler explores with characteristic humor and wisdom in a novel one wishes would never end.
| | | | Annotation
As always with Anne Tyler's novels, once we enter her world it is hard to leave. But in Back When We Were Grownups she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that we come away not only refreshed and delighted, but also infinitely wiser.
| |  | | |
 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 4 Average Rating:
Bootleg entry
-- A reviewer, a kind of prankster, June 28, 2002
Also Recommended: My Wonderful Life by Buffy Harrington Not in My Backyard by Jocelyn Whitney
You are the characters...
-- Jenna Roberson, July 8, 2002
Also Recommended: Shade of the Maple, Sea Glass
Could be Anne Tyler's best so far!
-- patti fitzpatrick, February 25, 2002
Also Recommended: All of Anne Tyler's novels, and 'A Marriage Made at Woodstock', by Cathie Pelletier.
Tyler's best yet!
-- Tami, a speech therapist, October 22, 2001
Also Recommended: '99 Martinis' by Kim Corum
| |  | | | Find similiar books in these subject areas:
All Topics > Literature & Fiction > General > Contemporary
All Topics > Literature & Fiction
| | | | These specific items are very similiar:
Back When We Were Grownups , by Anne Tyler
Back When We Were Grownups , by Anne Tyler
Back When We Were Grownups , by Anne Tyler
Back When We Were Grownups , by Anne Tyler
Back When We Were Grownups , by Anne Tyler
| | | | | | People like you also bought:
Last Time They Met, by Anita Shreve
Fourth Hand, by John Irving
Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, by James Patterson
Corrections (Oprah Edition), by Jonathan Franzen
Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
Cane River (Oprah Edition), by Lalita Tademy
Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier
Fall on Your Knees (Oprah Edition), by Ann-Marie MacDonald
| | | | | | Keywords
Widows, Large type books, Baltimore (Md ), Widows, Large type books, Baltimore (Md ), Baltimore (Md.), Fiction, Widows, Large type books, Psychological fiction, Fiction - General, General
| |
| |
| | | |
Make $1 per sale -
Link to ZooScape.com! | |
