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Clock Dance (Tyler) - Discussion Questions - LitLovers Clock Dance (Tyler) - Discussion Questions - LitLovers

Like many of Tyler’s heroines, Willa’s talents only gradually emerge. Tiny details reveal the woman she has become in her sixties. Her carry-on case for the flight to Baltimore is the largest allowed: ‘She liked to dress nicely when she traveled.’ She can be manipulatively helpless: ‘Marriage was often a matter of dexterity, in Willa’s experience.’ Peter, who calls Willa ‘little one’, insists on accompanying her to Baltimore. ‘When have you ever traveled alone?’ She has, in fact, but Willa weakly acquiesces for the ‘comfort’ of being looked after. Her knowledge of five languages and long teaching career scarcely register. But arriving in unfamiliar surroundings causes Willa to ponder her own behaviour and that of her family. Peter clings to his laptop and mobile phone and is resentful of Willa’s interest in the new community. Having dinner with her son, who lives in Baltimore, Willa is disconcerted when he entertains his girlfriend with a gleefully spiteful critique of Peter. It occurs to her that she has spent her life apologising for men.One of Tyler’s many fantastic strengths has always been her ability to manage a great number of characters in the same space, choreographing them to bounce off one another in ways that are both enthralling and convincing. But here, despite a somewhat unrewarding subplot about the shooting, and despite the promising appearance of a local doctor who, if this were an earlier Tyler novel, might have lured Willa from her dull golfer, the chit-chat all too easily descends into tedium. David Gelber: Chancellors & Chancers - Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation since 1945 by Paul Lendvai verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ And in some ways – many ways actually – this, her 22nd novel, has much in common with that earlier book. Both tell the story of a gentle, obliging – some might say wimpish – person who’s allowed him or herself to be borne along by life, taking a path dictated by the demands of others. And both offer the satisfaction of seeing that complaisant bubble of obligingness punctured by something a whole lot brasher – some might say trashier – not to mention more complex and chaotic and alive. One of Tyler’s many strengths has always been her ability to manage a great number of characters in the same space Eileen M Hunt: Feminism vs Big Brother - Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder; Julia by Sandra Newman

Clock Dance by Anne Tyler, review: Less nuanced than her best Clock Dance by Anne Tyler, review: Less nuanced than her best

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Where families fail, friends and neighbours can fill the void. Willa’s encounters with Cheryl and Denise, and their sociable, oddball neighbours, are related in beadily observed, often hilarious accounts. Willa bonds with plump, precocious Cheryl, one of Tyler’s most appealing creations. Friends offer gifts and advice; the secret of Denise’s shooting is revealed; doctor Ben dispenses antibiotics and life-coaching. Some of this could have been cheesy, but in Tyler’s capable hands it is funny and interesting. It is Ben who coaxes Willa towards a more nuanced perspective on her parents’ marriage – ‘My wife used to say that her idea of hell would be marrying Gandhi,’ he muses – and Willa’s exuberant, gifted mother, maddened by saintliness, slips into focus. The Canadian novelist Carol Shields described the ‘true’ subject of serious fiction as being not ‘ongoing wars or political issues, but the search of an individual for his or her true home’. Tyler’s novel presents a moving portrait of a woman, late in life, discovering an environment in which she can flourish. The question is whether Willa will seize the opportunity offered or return to docile wifehood. Tyler keeps the reader in suspense until the final paragraphs. For People Who Devour Books Part two of the novel begins with Willa, now sixty-one, reluctantly living in the golfing haven to which her second husband, Peter, has chosen to retire. Willa has no interest in golf and sits alone in an unfamiliar home while Peter tries to improve his handicap. When she receives a phone call telling her that her son’s former girlfriend Denise, a woman she has never met, has been shot in the leg and is in hospital, Willa impulsively flies to Baltimore. Even though Denise’s nine-year-old daughter, Cheryl, is not a blood relative, Willa cannot resist playing grandmother. And so her adventures begin. A little less obviously reasonable is the idea that Willa, who has barely heard of these people, doesn’t think twice before jumping on a plane. And then a stranger calls from Baltimore to say that her neighbour, an ex-girlfriend of Willa’s eldest, has been shot in the leg and hospitalised and needs someone to care for her nine-year-old daughter. The neighbour, not unreasonably, assumes that Willa must be the grandmother of this child.

Anne Tyler’s Latest Heroine Quits Cushy Arizona for Quirky

Amenable 61-year-old Willa Drake – “she was the only woman she knew whose prime objective was to be taken for granted” – has moved to Arizona with her second husband, humourless, golf-playing Peter. Her beloved (and equally amenable) father is dead; she doesn’t see much of her adult sons. Keep the Fires Burning": "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 24 May 2016". Imgur.com . Retrieved 4 July 2017. Top 100 peaks to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.

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Following the defeat of the Nazis in 1945, the idea took hold that Austria had been the first casualty of Hitler’s aggression when in 1938 it was incorporated into the Third Reich.’

Clock Dance by Anne Tyler - review by Pamela Norris Clock Dance by Anne Tyler - review by Pamela Norris

Funder reveals how O’Shaughnessy Blair self-effacingly supported Orwell intellectually, emotionally, medically and financially ... why didn’t Orwell do the same for his wife in her equally serious time of need?’ Kate Tuttle (August 1, 2018) "Anne Tyler’s Latest Heroine Quits Cushy Arizona for Quirky Baltimore", New York Times. She is one of our greatest living fiction writers and if I were in charge, she’d have a Nobel by now. And unusually for someone who focuses so unapologetically on the quotidian ache of human experience, Anne Tyler is equally rated by both men and women. Her earlier books have lost none of their punch either.

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