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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Audio
Edition: 2 Cassettes
Publisher: Random AudioBooks
ISBN: 0679441107
Release Date: Jan 5, 1990
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Anne Tyler tells the story of a 40-year-old woman, the mother of three almost-grown children, who on a sudden impulse walks away from her marriage, hitches a ride into the unknown, and settles in a strange new town to invent a new life. What propels Delia Grinstead, the wife of a Baltimore physician, as she is spending another rainy vacation with husband, children, and assorted relatives? Is it old hurts and humiliations that surface this particular summer in the family-infested beach cottage? The feeling that she has become expendable? The memory, perhaps, of that angular young man in the supermarket who asked her to pose as his girlfriend when he runs into his ex-wife? Or is it simply the lure of the local repairman's beautifully self-sufficient van, sailing off, unencumbered? Whatever. Delia takes off, wearing only her swimsuit and her husband's beach robe, and doesn't stop until she is suddenly captivated by a quiet little tree-lined town. There she halts the van, hops off, finds a stark room to rent, and settles in. So begins her new, impersonal life as Ms. Grinstead. But inevitably the world crowds in. New friends, new responsibilities, accumulate - from a stray cat who craves a home to a sad, deserted husband and his little boy who need her to fill a hole in their lives.
| | | | Annotation
Celia Grinstead walks away from her family one summer day at the beach, and doesn't stop until she reaches a quiet little Delaware town. 2 cassettes.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 4 Average Rating:
hard to put down
-- hannah, December 17, 2001
Inspiring and uplifting
-- Karyn, university student in Michigan, June 19, 2000
Also Recommended: Patchwork Planet, Breathing Lessons
not quite outstanding, but definately worth the effort
-- Kathy, August 17, 2001
Also Recommended: Disappearing Acts, Plainsong by Haruf, The Last time they met by Anita Shreve
Ladder Fails to Lead to Anything
-- Kris, 41-year old avid reader, March 15, 1999
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
A 40-year-old mother walks out on her marriage and children and hitchhikes her way to a new life.
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