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Redhead by the Side of the Road
- A Novel
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Redhead by the Side of the Road
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Publisher's Summary
Instant New York Times Best Seller
Long Listed for The Booker Prize
“Tyler's novels are always worth scooping up - but especially this gently amusing soother, right now.” (NPR)
From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.
Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day, his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late 30s a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever.
An intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who finds those around him just out of reach, and a funny, joyful, deeply compassionate story about seeing the world through new eyes, Redhead by the Side of the Road is a triumph, filled with Anne Tyler's signature wit and gimlet-eyed observation.
What the critics say
"Tyler’s warmly comedic, quickly read tale, a perfect stress antidote, will delight her fans and provides an excellent ‘first’ for readers new to this master of subtle and sublime brilliance.... If Tyler’s large-cast, many-faceted novels are symphonies, this portrait of a man imprisoned by his routines is a concerto.... Radiantly polished and emotionally intricate...Tyler’s perfectly modulated, instantly enmeshing, heartrending, funny, and redemptive tale sweetly dramatizes the absurdities of flawed perception and the risks of rigidity." (Donna Seaman, Booklist)
"Characteristically tender... Suffused with feeling and very moving." (Kirkus Reviews starred review)
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-06-14
very interesting
this story starts off slowly and at times you want to give up on it. however...hang in because it is a beautiful tale of how very ordinary things changes a man and makes him whole.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Sandra S
- 2022-01-06
Not a thrilling book
I found this book boring and long. Nothing really happens and the story is not interesting enough to keep my attention. Disappointing.
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