Available to readers for the first time since its initial publication, this is a wry and moving story by an American master. The first thing I tell people is, I

American women writers have long been creating an extraordinarily diverse and vital body of fiction, particularly in the decades since World War II. Recent auth

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With the movie version of The Accidental Tourist and the awarding of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction to Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler has achieved widesprea