How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.

The accidental tourist ; niveau 5

Ils se croyaient uniques : c'était peut-être la preuve supplémentaire que les Whitshank étaient une famille comme les autres.Abby Whitshank est mère de cinq enfants devenus adultes. Elle excelle à les rassembler tous autour d'un repas ou d'une conversation. Pourtant, si aujourd'hui tous les enfants sont de retour à Baltimore, c'est parce que Abby les inquiète par ses comportements étranges et ses pertes de mémoire. Le coeur de la famille Whitshank semble battre de travers. Même Denny, le fils rebelle, s'en émeut. Avec humour et mélancolie, Anne Tyler recompose le drame doux-amer d'une famille qui se croyait plus heureuse que les autres. Elle l'était, c'est vrai, mais au prix de mille petits arrangements avec la réalité...

Une bobine de fil bleu

In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore.  Then, in the blink of an eye, a single tragic event occurs that will transform their lives forever--particularly that of seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe, the youngest son, who blames himself for the sudden "accidental" death of his older brother.Depressed and depleted, Ian is almost crushed under the weight of an unbearable, secret guilt.  Then one crisp January evening, he catches sight of a window with glowing yellow neon, the CHURCH OF THE SECOND CHANCE.  He enters and soon discovers that forgiveness must be earned, through a bit of sacrifice and a lot of love...A New York Times Notable Book

Saint Lendemain

"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."People MagazineCharlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery — and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate....From the Paperback edition.

Toujours partir

Modern fictionMany of the reviews for the hardback of this title suggested that this was Anne Tyler's best novel yet. It is the story of Barnaby Gaitlin, a man who used to have a happy family, but now has an ex-wife, troublesome nine-year-old, an unreliable car, as well as a job doing chores for the elderly. His hopeless charm still attracts the women though... Tyler won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons, and The Accidental Tourist was made into a major film.

Patchwork Planet

La vie conjugale ne serait-elle qu'un long deuil ? Ira et Maggie partent en voiture assister aux funérailles d'un ami. Jalonné de petites disputes, de bifurcations cocasses et d'une foule de souvenirs, le trajet vire au bilan pour ce couple dépareillé - lui, le pessimiste introverti, elle, la rêveuse bavarde. Une odyssée minuscule, à travers leur passé, l'amour étiolé, leurs espoirs déçus et les liens qui les unissent, encore... Orfèvre de l'intime et de l'ordinaire, Anne Tyler interroge nos certitudes avec une grande finesse psychologique : cette comédie douce-amère, prix Pulitzer 1989, est irrésistible.

Leçons de conduite

Le voyageur malgre lui, c'est une serie de guides touristiques que redige Macon Leary a l'intention de ses compatriotes qui ne jurent que par le home sweet home et detestent comme lui voyager. Le voyageur malgre lui, c'est surtout Macon Leary, confronte au scandale absolu que represente la mort de son fils, et au depart consecutif de sa femme, Sarah. Au chaos absurde de sa vie, il s'efforce de substituer un ordre securitaire et systematique et se complique la vie pour se la simplifier. Jusqu'au jour ou deboule la petillante Muriel, jeune dresseuse d'animaux, bien decidee a tirer de sa lethargie ce fantaisiste psychorigide qui existe sans vivre. Le voyageur malgre lui, c'est finalement tout homme etranger a lui-meme et au monde, qui perd ses reperes lorsqu'il connait un desamour, lorsque son quotidien se delite brusquement, et que l'humour devient alors la politesse du desespoir.A la faveur d'une delectable ironie tragi-comique et d'un sens du detail aigu du detail comme du bon mot enleve, Anne Tyler excelle ici dans la description des themes qui ont assis sa renommee: l'enfer tiede et solitaire du couple, la crise existentielle mesuree a l'aune de la cellule familiale. Autant de themes dont la portee universelle epouse la singularite caustique, bien que pleine d'empathie, d'une plume heritiere de Jane Austen.

Le voyageur malgré lui

In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport—the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian American wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate with an “arrival party,” an event that is repeated every year as the two families become more deeply intertwined.Even independent-minded Maryam is drawn in. But only up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by one of the Donaldson clan, a good-hearted man of her vintage, recently widowed and still recovering from his wife’s death, suddenly all the values she cherishes—her traditions, her privacy, her otherness—are threatened. Somehow this big American takes up so much space that the orderly boundaries of her life feel invaded.A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that cast a penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.

Les petites filles du soleil

From the bestselling author of  A Spool of Blue Thread : an offbeat love story about mis-steps, second chances and the elusive art of human connection.    Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world. He measures out his days running errands for work - his TECH HERMIT sign cheerily displayed on the roof of his car - maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady balance of his life.  But then the order of things starts to tilt. His woman friend Cassia (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a 'girlfriend') tells him she's facing eviction because of a cat. And when a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son, Micah is confronted with another surprise he seems poorly equipped to handle.    Redhead by the Side of the Road  is an intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who sometimes finds those around him just out of reach - and a love story about the differences that make us all unique .                                                                                                                                                                                     **A  SUNDAY TIMES  BOOK TO WATCH OUT FOR IN 2020**

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