A Slipping-Down Life (novel)

A Slipping-Down Life

First edition cover, New York, 1970
Author	Anne Tyler
Original title	A Slipping-Down Life
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Knopf
Publication date	1970
Published in English	1970
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	214 pp
ISBN	9780394445731
OCLC	36205678
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Class	PZ4.T979 Sl PS3570.Y45 (76098663 )
Preceded by	The Tin Can Tree (1965)
Followed by	The Clock Winder (1972)

A Slipping-Down Life is a 1970 novel by Anne Tyler.

Plot summary

Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....

See also

• A Slipping-Down Life

References

External links

• IMDb A Slipping-Down Life (1999) Film

Works by Anne Tyler Novels If Morning Ever Comes (1964) The Tin Can Tree (1965) A Slipping-Down Life (1970) The Clock Winder (1972) Celestial Navigation (1974) Searching for Caleb (1975) Earthly Possessions (1977) Morgan's Passing (1980) *Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) *The Accidental Tourist (1985) **Breathing Lessons (1988) Saint Maybe (1991) Ladder of Years (1995) A Patchwork Planet (1998) Back When We Were Grownups (2001) The Amateur Marriage (2004) Digging to America (2006) Noah's Compass (2010) The Beginner's Goodbye (2012) A Spool of Blue Thread Pulitzer Prize **Winner *Finalist Children's books Tumble Tower (1993) Timothy Tugbottom Says No! (2005) Short stories Average Waves in Unprotected Waters (1977) Holding Things Together (1977) Teenage Wasteland (short story) (1983) Adaptations The Accidental Tourist (1988/Film) Breathing Lessons (1994/TV) Saint Maybe (1998/TV) A Slipping-Down Life (1999/Film) Earthly Possessions (1999/TV) Back When We Were Grownups (2004/TV)