![]() ![]() You could even argue that it is a novel about a house, and that the dominant character is the house itself. This, her 20th, is set in a well-to-do house in the leafy suburbs. ![]() Her novels are all set in Baltimore, where she lives, but Tyler’s is a Baltimore far removed from the housing projects in The Wire. Her books are full of families talking about humdrum things like doing the washing-up, or going shopping or what’s for lunch, yet they are somehow more gripping than the paciest transcontinental thriller. She doesn’t go in for adverbs or ornament. Her writing style seems close to styleless. How does she capture so accurately the peculiar ebbs and flows of married life, of family life, of life itself? How does she manage to give her readers the impression they have actually been living in a given household, overhearing her characters talk? How does she do it? How does she construct such a complex narrative out of such simple sentences? How does she do it? Each time I come to the end of a novel by Anne Tyler, I find myself asking this question. How does Anne Tyler construct such a complex narrative out of such simple sentences? ![]()
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