Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler is a novel about a week in the life of a middle-aged man, Micah Mortimer, as he comes to terms with his past relationships with women. The catalyst for this reckoning is the arrival of an ex-girlfriend's son who believes that Micah is his father. The novel paints a picture of Micah's past experiences, and how they have shaped his life into the routine and highly regimented form it takes in the present, along with the forces come to erode them. In doing so, Anne Tyler deals with themes of aging, relationships, and forgiveness, among others.
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Anne Tyler (born 1941) is considered one of America's most important living writers. Her works evince familiarity with an extended literary tradition, with influences ranging from Emerson and Thoreau ...
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Anne Tyler has been steadily gaining well-deserved critical and popular attention for the eight novels and numerous short stories she has produced over the past seventeen years. Her work is as remark...
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"The real heroes to me in my books," Anne Tyler told Marguerite Michaels, "are first the ones who manage to endure and second the ones who somehow are able to grant other people the privacy of the s...
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Biography Essay"The real heroes to me in my books," Anne Tyler told interviewer Marguerite Michaels, "are first the ones who manage to endure and second the ones who somehow are able to grant other pe...
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Anne Tyler
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