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Searching For Caleb

Anne Tyler author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:1st Feb '96

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From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Searching for Caleb is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style

Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the seventies, this book is a moving quest for a family's deepest roots - and a haunting story of growing up and breaking away, acceptance and rebellion.

Discover Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's deeply personal American historical epic.

Duncan Peck is a restless man, always on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912 never to be seen again. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots, to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one...

**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce

'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali


'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks

'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson

Family sagas have such an endless appeal that whenever one meets a really good one, like Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb, one wonders why anyone bothers to write a different form of novel
Anne Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredicability of seemingly everyday lives * Sunday Telegraph *
Strange and enchanting * The Times *

ISBN: 9780099591917

Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 30mm

Weight: 340g

432 pages