Anne Tyler — A Spool of Blue Thread

London, Chatto & Windus, 2015. First edition. Hardback. The first U.K. edition, first impression of this Man-Booker-Prize-shortlisted novel by the American author Anne Tyler, scarcely found with the author's signature, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first U.K. edition, first impression of the work. With the author's signature to the title page.With the original unclipped dust wrapper.Scarcely found thus. Anne Tyler is a multiple-award-winning, contemporary American author whose novel Breathing Lessons won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989. Her writing tends to resist easy categorisation, however critics have noted Tyler's recurrent interest in familial and marital relationships. A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, and follows three generations of the Whitshank family through the highs and lows of their relationships. In the original publisher's binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very attractive with a touch of bumping and fractional rubbing to the bottom fore edge. A minor closed tear to the rear top edge of the wrapper and a touch of rubbing to the barcode sticker at the rear, otherwise: light shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound with lovely, bright, clean pages. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .