Digging to America

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• 'Digging to America' by Anne Tyler

  These questions -- and more -- are explored in Anne Tyler's brilliant Digging to America, her 17th novel, which has been critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic and was recently shortlisted for this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fictio ... (read full critics)

  readingmatters published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

• Babes in the 'hood

  Digging to America Anne Tyler Chatto & Windus £16.99, pp277 It hardly seems likely that a novel could contain too much understanding. Isn't that what fiction aims at, supersaturation with insight? Still, that's the strongest criticism that can be mad ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

5 Reviews

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  Some similar themes to Amateur Marriage, but a marvellous read, well written, witty - excellent. Anne Tyler always manages to leave you confused about which characters to tlike and which to dislike - this often changes as you read.

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  Canda said on Dec 10, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Reading Anne Tyler is like feeling home. Maybe this is not her best book and maybe there are too many themes overlapping here. Maybe she just wanted to “dig” up American multiethnic society and reflect on it from the interesting and never banal insight that is the trademark of her work. I guess i ... (continue)

  Reading Anne Tyler is like feeling home. Maybe this is not her best book and maybe there are too many themes overlapping here. Maybe she just wanted to “dig” up American multiethnic society and reflect on it from the interesting and never banal insight that is the trademark of her work. I guess it’s interesting that the main focus is not on the 2 adopted kids and on how they change in the new environment. The focus is on how the kids bring changes into the families life. There’s a great hope, which is maybe the essence of life itself, in assuming the resilience of a young life to a new environment.

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  Vouvoltar said on Apr 9, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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  Only the second title I have read by this author, the previous one was 'Back When were Grown-ups' I enjoyed both very much and look forward to reading more of Anne Tyler's work. This is about two sets of adoptive parents and the relationship that forms between them, after they both adopt Korean babi ... (continue)

  Only the second title I have read by this author, the previous one was 'Back When were Grown-ups' I enjoyed both very much and look forward to reading more of Anne Tyler's work. This is about two sets of adoptive parents and the relationship that forms between them, after they both adopt Korean babies on the same day, the only thing they had in common, The novel describes their 'ordinary lives' in a compassionate and humurous narrative, covering family dynamics from all angles and a perfect ending!
  I already have the address for fifna in the Netherlands so am going to go the post office with it tomorrow, in the hope that it will get there before Christmas.

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  Lindyloumac said on Sep 24, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  a bore

  subject is great - two families adopt Korean kids at the same time and then...stay in touch. but after that, so what? no interest whatsoever. Dissapointing. Hadn't read Anne Tyler in a long time probably won't try again

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  Gail Paris said on Feb 23, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Digging to America

  A touching story of two dis-similar families drawn together by their adoption of Korean infants.

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  Readingrat said on Nov 27, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 288 Pages
• ISBN-10: 070118034X
• ISBN-13: 9780701180348
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Pub date: May 04, 2006
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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