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Original Title: A Patchwork Planet
ISBN: 080411918X (ISBN13: 9780804119184)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Maryland(United States)
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A Patchwork Planet Paperback | Pages: 320 pages
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I believe I've admitted to reading all of Anne Tyler's books, several of them more than once. I just reread A Patchwork Planet, and I'm dumbstruck again. Like no other author I know, Tyler is a master of the emotional sandbag. She blindsides you, saps you in the skull when you don't see it coming (even if you've already read the book!), and you need to take a brief time-out to recover from being a blubbering fool. In this paperback edition, if you don't experience an epiphany by page sixty-one, you must be reading so fast you're missing what's in the white space.

Now, delivering a show-stopping apotheosis not even a quarter-way through a story might seem a bit odd, structurally speaking. Your veteran movie scribe will save that kind of moment for well into the third act. Or, if you follow William Goldman's advice, you should give the audience a half-dozen of these choke-up take-aways, but not more. It's the devastating zinger, the tune you'll be humming, the two cigarettes on a match -- the usual suspects -- you know what I mean.

Here's a parallel for opera lovers, of which I am also one. Anne Tyler writes like Puccini. She gives you a score that's artful and interesting, but at some point -- and it's unpredictable where it will occur -- she delivers a show-stopping aria that brings the tears and makes you rediscover once more why you love opera in the first place. In Puccini's case, perhaps the most remarkable example is the one-act Gianni Schicchi. The score is masterful enough but it's not all that engaging. He's experimenting with musical themes, some of them atonal and not all that glorious in my opinion (I'm not accusing Tyler of the same -- this is not a perfect analogy). But then the soprano belts out "O mio babbino caro," which is like pure sunlight flooding into a damp room.

I'm a student of literary style and of structure, and frankly I can't tell you how she does it. If you have an explanation, please post!

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Title:A Patchwork Planet
Author:Anne Tyler
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 320 pages
Published:May 1st 2001 by Ballantine Books (first published April 14th 1998)
Categories:Fiction. Contemporary

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This book follows thirty year-old divorced father, never graduated college, manual laborer Barnaby Gaitlin through a year of growing up. Barnaby works for a company that aids the elderly and others with heavy lifting and big chores, leading to many interesting minor characters in the novel. Barnaby realizes that he is not living up to his potential both in his parents' eyes and in his own, although for different reasons. He meets a slightly older woman, Sophia, on the train and begins a

I believe I've admitted to reading all of Anne Tyler's books, several of them more than once. I just reread A Patchwork Planet, and I'm dumbstruck again. Like no other author I know, Tyler is a master of the emotional sandbag. She blindsides you, saps you in the skull when you don't see it coming (even if you've already read the book!), and you need to take a brief time-out to recover from being a blubbering fool. In this paperback edition, if you don't experience an epiphany by page sixty-one,

Ive always liked Anne Tylers stories and this one started off well but it fell very flat in the end. She dedicated it to the loving memory of her husband so perhaps she lost heart towards the end. She has always written about people viewed as losers or really just view themselves as losers and then in the end find the life they had thought was mundane is pretty wonderful after all. I really liked Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, but this one with Barnaby who works at Rent-a-Back and is

Just wonderful

barnaby lives a strange life. he started out breaking into people's houses with his friends but was only interested in photo albums, letters, the personal stuff he was bailed out by his very rich parents - definitely the black sheep of the family! - and eventually found a job with a firm that does jobs for people - generally older - who cannot do them. the owner takes a shine to him, like a mother hen, and he soon proves himself to be very adept and loves his work. money has no interest to him.

The critics say that Anne Tyler writes novels with quirky characters. I say that we are all quirky characters. Certainly, I grew up with and am a member of a family of quirky characters. I find the characters in Anne Tyler's novels real, they are people one meets everyday. As I began to read this novel, I thought about days when I lived in the pages of Anne Tyler's novels. My trips to the library always took me to the same section, where I fingered the titles looking for favorite or unread

'A Patchwork Planet" opens and closes with this protest: "I am a man you can trust." Barnaby Gaitlin understands the full value of trust, and between the covers of Anne Tyler's latest novel, he tells a story of hard won redemption in the face of withering doubts.Everything about Barnaby's upbringing in a gracious Baltimore neighborhood promised a successful life. His family even keeps a book of narratives about their encounters with guardian angels, strangers who have passed on wise advice about