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Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler''s raw exploration of the power of youth and fate.

In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram ''Drumstrings'' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she manages to meet him, she bursts out of her lonely shell and their two lives become unforgettably entwined.

**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

''Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing'' Rachel Joyce

''She knows all the secrets of the human heart'' Monica Ali

''A masterly author'' Sebastian Faulks

''I love Anne Tyler. I''ve read every single book she''s written'' Jacqueline Wilson



Trade Review
Wickedly good * John Updike *
Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age * Allison Pearson, Daily Mail *
Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate * Guardian *
Wickedly good * John Updike *
Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age * Allison Pearson, Daily Mail *

A Slipping Down Life

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 15 November 1990
      ISBN-13 9780099517504
      978-0099517504
      ISBN-10 0099517507
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Anne Tyler

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler''s raw exploration of the power of youth and fate.

      In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram ''Drumstrings'' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she manages to meet him, she bursts out of her lonely shell and their two lives become unforgettably entwined.

      **ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

      ''Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing'' Rachel Joyce

      ''She knows all the secrets of the human heart'' Monica Ali

      ''A masterly author'' Sebastian Faulks

      ''I love Anne Tyler. I''ve read every single book she''s written'' Jacqueline Wilson



      Trade Review
      Wickedly good * John Updike *
      Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age * Allison Pearson, Daily Mail *
      Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate * Guardian *
      Wickedly good * John Updike *
      Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age * Allison Pearson, Daily Mail *

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