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A Tin Can Tree (Arena Books) (Paperback)

by Anne Tyler (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (3 Jan 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099337002
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099337003
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 32,538 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When young Jamie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way.

About the Author
Born in Minneapolis in 1941, Anne Tyler lives in Baltimore where her novels are set. She is the Pulitzer-prize winning novels of Breathing Lessons and other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Saint Maybe, Back When We Were Grownups and The Amateur Marriage.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written and full of insight, 1 Jan 2004
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My first Anne Tyler novel and from the first pages, I was a convert. I had no idea there were writers around nowadays able to draw such convincing characters in such economy of language. On a simple but compelling plot that begins with the funeral of a child, Anne Tyler draws a clever and sympathetic portrait of her various characters and their interactions as they live through their grief. The dialogue is scant and yet conveys so very much. An insightful story about the communication that happens both within words and without, and also about the other communication - the type that can never happen. A story about connection and isolation. Anne Tyler's is a unique voice and she tells a beautiful tale.
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4.0 out of 5 stars What is not said, 27 Jun 2008
By Ralph Blumenau (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Tin Can Tree (1st Ballantine Books Trade Ed) (Paperback)

This was only ths second of Anne Tyler's so far seventeen novels (1965), and, though I don't think it is one of her best, it is still one that carried me along. It is set in an unnamed tobacco-growing state, perhaps North Carolina. The most dramatic event happened before the novel opened and is not described - the death in an accident of a little girl called Janie Rose Pike; and nothing much - let alone anything dramatic - happens until very near the end of the book. Janey's mother is almost catatonic with grief and hardly speaks to anyone. Not that the other characters (except Ansell - see below) are ever very articulate. They communicate with each other in a laconic, often monosyllabic way, leave short sentences unfinished, and sometimes scarcely listen to each other, following their own trains of thought. Janey's little brother Simon - his age is never given, but I guess he is about eight - must be affected both by his sister's death and by his mother being totally withdrawn and paying no attention to him; but really this is our interpretation: there are lots of little boys who behave the way he does without being bereft. He is fond of his 26 year old cousin Joan who has been living with the family for some years and has helped looking after him and Janey Rose. Joan, too, must be affected by Janey Rose's death, but again this is something we must assume, since what seems to upset her most is having to cope with her aunt's withdrawal. Joan also has another problem: she is in love with James, a close neighbour and friend of the Pike family; but James feels he has to look after his weird brother Ansell, who may actually have something wrong with his health but is certainly a demanding hypochondriac with a torrent of talk - which Joan and the other members of that laconic community find hard to cope with. No wonder that Ansell feels aggrieved that nobody is listening to him.

This is an understated book and we have to get below its surface, and it is understandable that some readers will have found the surface too humdrum to hold their attention.
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