Back When We Were Grownups (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Anne Tyler Paperback Book

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Rent Back When We Were Grownups (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Author: Anne Tyler

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: Apr 2002

Genre: Fiction - Psychological

Retail Price: $16.00

Pages: 273

Synopsis

...GROWNUPS...doesn't deliver. Its lightness isn't unpleasing and its story isn't unaffecting. But Tyler's darker books insinuate themselves more deeply into one's heart....It pains me to say this, but Tyler seems a little spent in GROWNUPS....

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