Back When We Were Grownups (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1999
- Setting: Baltimore, Maryland
- Principal Characters: Rebecca Holmes Davitch, Paul P. “Poppy” Davitch, “Patch,”, “Biddy,”, “NoNo,”, “Minerva “Min Foo,”, Will Allenby, Zebulon Davitch, Joe Davitch
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Widows or widowers, Bereavement or grief, 1990’s, Baltimore, Stepfamily, Middle age, Maryland
- Locales: Baltimore, MD
People in Anne Tyler novels do the strangest things—“do” in that American English sense of the word in which one is what one “does.” In Saint Maybe, Tyler showed her readers a clutter counselor, while Patchwork Planet featured the Rent-a-Back service. Reading Anne Tyler can make the yellow pages of the phone book a new and exciting place again; did she really make that up? Are there really no clutter counselors listed? Back When We Were Grownups introduces the Davitches and their formerly grand but now run-down home, “The Open Arms,” which they operate...
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