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The Clock Winder
The Clock Winder
Author: Anne Tyler
...a marvelous portrait of an eccentric, fragmented Baltimore family, the Emersons, and of the girl who drifts into their lives, unaccountably manages to set things to right (even the clocks), and - despite her free-roaming spirit - stays on, becoming inextricably involved in the whole clan. That is, until she makes a terrible bungle and irrepa...  more »
ISBN: 362709
Publication Date: 1972
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Tunerlady avatar reviewed The Clock Winder on + 581 more book reviews
This was another great book from early Anne Tyler. I loved the quirky characters and the way the author describes them and their world..I could not put this one down for long!
pinkcypress avatar reviewed The Clock Winder on + 86 more book reviews
Love Anne Tyler, all her books give the reader such great insight into her characters.
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earlier work.
jerslp avatar reviewed The Clock Winder on + 7 more book reviews
A funny story of two quirky characters who, although opposite in so many ways, fit together beautifully.
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"The house had outlived its usefulness." is the first line of this 1972 Anne Tyler novel. Thus the house is introduced as a character in the novel in which the conflict, crisis, climax and resolution will occur. Each of the characters are brilliantly developed and once in the world of the Emersons, I never wanted to leave, just like the protagonist, Elizabeth Abbott.


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