Breathing Lessons $125.00
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Philadelphia, PA: Franklin Library (1988)
Like new with the original letter from the publisher enclosed.
Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years–and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son’s broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical, a man “who should have married Ann Landers.” And what begins as a day trip to a funeral becomes an adventure in the unexpected. As Maggie and Ira navigate the riotous twists and turns, they intersect with an assorted cast of eccentrics–and rediscover the magic of the road called life and the joy of having somebody next to you to share the ride . . . bumps and all.
A Spool of Blue Thread $25.95
New York, NY: Knopf (2015)
“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor.
Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler’s work,A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish.
In Black and White $1,000.00
Northridge, California: Lord John Press (1985)
Photographs of the 30s and 40s
One of 100 numbered copies signed by Welty and Anne Tyler who wrote the Introduction. Fine in decorated boards with black leather boards with black leather spine in slip case.
In Black and White $400.00
Northridge, California: Lord John Press (1985)
Photographs of the 30s and 40s
One of 400 numbered copies signed by Welty and Anne Tyler who wrote the Introduction. Fine in decorated boards and cloth spine.