![]() Aren’t some of her most memorable and satisfying novels those where she plumbs the male human heart and psyche with all of her customary tenderness and honesty? Who can forget Saint Maybe ’s self-lacerating Ian Bedloe, or the poles-apart brothers from Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant ? Or – probably my favourite – the heart-wrenched Macon Leary in The Accidental Tourist?Īnd now – chiming eerily at least in name with Macon – here’s fortysomething Micah, blue-eyed, with “not-so-good posture”, clad in jeans and a “partially erased looking” brown leather jacket. But reading this enjoyable novel – her 23rd – it struck me that there can’t be a writer, of either gender, who creates more engaging or multi-dimensional men. A nne Tyler has won so many plaudits over the past 50 odd years that it’s hard to think of new superlatives to add. ![]()
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