Anne Tyler, Digging to America

Cecilia Donohue (Independent Scholar - North America)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2006

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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In her seventeenth published novel,

Digging to America

, contemporary United States novelist Anne Tyler revisits many of her trademark themes and subject matter yet at the same time breaks new topical ground. As in her previous novels, Tyler transports her readers once again to the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, on the middle Atlantic coast of the United States. Once again these outskirt communities are populated with ordinary people possessing the quirks, fears, hopes, and ambitions that make them human. In addition, the dénouement often found in Tyler's works, suggesting the reunion and reconciliation of an extended family, is present in this novel's final pages. However, her most recent book adds multicultural and sociological components to the familiar thematic threads; in

Digging to

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Citation: Donohue, Cecilia. "Digging to America". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 November 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23046, accessed 04 May 2024.]

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