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
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....

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