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Book Review of A Patchwork Planet

A Patchwork Planet
A Patchwork Planet
Author: Anne Tyler
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 7


Anything by Anne Tyler is irresistible reading. One gets caught up in her elegant phrasing, so unusual with today's faster-paced style. Her heroes live on the edge of main stream America, caught up in daily struggles familiar to us all--often chaotic and character revealing. This novel is about 30-year-old misfit Barnaby Gaitlin, "a renegade who is actually a kind-hearted man struggling to find his place in the world."