National Review, September 1st, 1989
ANNE TYLER'S ten novels before the Pulitzer Prize-winning Breathing Lessons are all readily available in cheap paperback editions. Each of them is garnished with a sampling of the kind of criticism Miss Tyler tends to collect ("phenomenal," "astonishing," "wonderful," "marvelous," "extraordinarily good"), and each features a short back-cover introduction that in
vites us into the story almost the way radio announcers introduced soap operas years ago ("And when Morgan crashes into the lives of two lovely young newlyweds, no one's heart is safe"). The novels themselves are painstaking chronic...
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