Clock Dance - Anne Tyler

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Résumé :
This exploration of themes of family and self-becoming from the author of A Spool Of Blue Thread sends its main protagonist Willa across the country into a surprising and unfamiliar community in order to act on her unique position to help when her son's ex-girlfriend is shot. To Willa, this is a move that represents taking command of her own destiny at a late chapter in her life.

Biographie:
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.