![]() She was 17, Sam Grinstead came to be his assistant and to choose one of the three princesses. They live in the large old Baltimore house in which she grew up. At 40, she has long been married to a kindly doctor who still makes house calls. Tyler's 13th novel, the story that appears to unfold of its own accord is a fairy tale of sorts, a fairy tale with echoes of both the tragedy of "King Lear" and the absurdity of the modern romance novel.ĭelia (short for Cordelia) is the youngest of three sisters. Without a style, so measured and delicate is each observation, so complex is the structure and so astute and open the language, that the reader can relax, feel secure in the narrative and experience the work as something real and natural One of her books in the middle and picking a page at random, a reader might not immediately recognize her individual rhythm or idiosyncratic temperament. ![]() ![]() THE French have said that William Wyler, the great director of movies like "Dodsworth" and "The Best Years of Our Lives," had a "style sans style." Anne Tyler has this same deceptive "style without a style." Opening May 7, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - Finalīy Anne Tyler. ![]()
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