Ladder of Years (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, Self-discovery, Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Marriage, Alienation
- Locales: Baltimore, MD, Bay Borough, MD, Bethany Beach, DE
LADDER OF YEARS tells the story of Cordelia (Delia) Grinstead, who walks away from her Baltimore family vacationing at the beach in Delaware. She hops a ride to the nearby town of Bay Borough, named not for a body of water but George Pendle Bay, who deserted the Union Army because of a dream. This account of the town’s founding, a nice example of Tyler’s whimsy, parallels Delia’s own history. Before deserting her family, Delia tries to compensate for her unhappy marriage by flirting with an affair cut to the pattern of the romance novels she reads. Like Bay, she wakes from her...
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