Searching for Caleb

by Anne Tyler

Overview

"Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel."

THE BOSTON GLOBE

Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots...to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one....

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307788382
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/23/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Hometown:

Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Birth:

October 25, 1941

Place of Birth:

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Education:

B.A., Duke University, 1961

Editorial Reviews

As hauntingly nostalgic as a glimpse into the lighted windows of a home in which you once lived.

Detroit Free Press

Reading [Tyler], one is constantly being startled by such moments: gestures, words, wrinkles of thought and feeling that are at once revelatory and exactly right.” —The New York Times

“Funny and lyric and true, exquisite in its details and ambitious in its design.” —John Updike, The New Yorker

"An astounding confidence, depth and range" —The Boston Globe

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