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A Slipping Down Life

By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: Deborah McBride
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The audio edition of A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler.

In a small Southern town teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead their two lives become unforgettably entwined in this remarkable novel.

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©2019 Anne Tyler (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural United States World Literature

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