A Slipping-down Life
Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's raw exploration of the power of youth and fate. In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she manages to meet him, she bursts out of her lonely shell and their two lives become unforgettably entwined. **ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE** 'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce 'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali 'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks 'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson
154 pages, 16 editions
English edition · First published 1970 by Vintage · ISBN 9780099517504
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Editions
16 editions
English
- A Slipping-down Life · Vintage · 1990 · ISBN 9780099517504 · 1 reader This page
- A Slipping-Down Life · Random House Digital Inc. · 2011 · ISBN 9780307788320
- A Slipping-Down Life · Random House Publishing Group · 2011 · ISBN 9781446426654
- A Slipping-down Life · Ballantine Books · 2004 · ISBN 9780345478955
- A Slipping-Down Life · Random House Publishing Group · 2004 · ISBN 9780345478146
- A Slipping-Down Life · Perfection Learning · 2004 · ISBN 9780756957124
- A Slipping-down Life · Longman · 1996 · ISBN 9780582292475
- A Slipping-down Life · Ivy books · 1992 · ISBN 9780804108867
- A Slipping-down Life (Cosmopolitanonly) · Vintage · 1990 · ISBN 9780099583516
- A Slipping-down Life · G.K. Hall · 1985 · ISBN 9780816137114
- A Slipping-down Life · Berkley Books · 1983 · ISBN 9780425103623
- A Slipping-down Life · Berkley Books · 1983 · ISBN 9780425061428
- A Slipping-Down Life · Hamlyn · 1983 · ISBN 9780600204688
- A Slipping-down Life · Severn House · 1983 · ISBN 9780727809179
- A Slipping-down Life · Popular Library · 1977 · ISBN 9780445085961
- A Slipping-down Life · Knopf · 1970 · ISBN 9780449001028
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