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Search - A Slipping-Down Life
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Book Description:
Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager with a distant father and hours and hours of silence to fill. Then one night she hears local rock singer Drumstrings Casey on the radio—and becomes instantly attracted to his cool, motionless voice. Evie learns that Drumstrings frequently plays at a dingy roadhouse called The Unicorn. So she goes there and, with an uncharacteristically bold gesture, bursts out of her lonely shell—and into the attentive gaze of an intangible man who becomes all too real. . . .
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Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
- Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Family Saga
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( T ) >> Tyler, Anne
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is a story of a plump teenager who is "out of step" with everything. She meets and falls for a musician. Their relationship is the core of the novel. It is a penetrationg look at the way two people can come together and love each other without even really knowing and understanding each other.
The author is a very perceptive writer and she gives us a "brids-eye-view" into the world of a teenage girl....which at times can be a little disturbing! A well written and quick read!
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Julie V. from RIVER EDGE, NJ wrote on 3/20/2006...Excellent and very funny. Very typical of Anne Tyler--whe is one of my favorite authors.