![]() Redhead by the Side of the Road, Tyler’s 23rd novel, longlisted for the Booker Prize this year, is a fascinating study in characterisation. Redhead by the Side of the Road / Anne Tyler / Penguin Random House / Fiction / ₹599 But, by then, Tyler has established that Micah’s vision impairment isn’t just physical the man who devotes undivided attention to tasks doesn’t do so to people around him. On his way back from the morning run (he doesn’t wear glasses then as they bob up and down his nose), he often mistakes a certain fire hydrant for “a child or a very short grown-up”. Monday is trash day, Wednesday, recycling day at home, Monday is floor-mopping day, Thursday is kitchen day, Friday for vacuum. In the afternoon, he potters about the apartment, again sorting days by chores. At 10 or 10.30 am, “he slaps the magnetic TECH HERMIT sign” on his car and attends service calls. ![]() At 7.15 every morning, he is out on his run. Her prose is precise, almost austere, and yet it gently draws the reader into the very ordinary and unremarkable life of Micah Mortimer.Īll days are the same to him, only tasks differ. Tyler masterfully keeps the moment of fissure subtle. It is a moment that plays on the reader’s mind long after it has passed, but evidently bothers Micah little as he goes about his business as usual. “Well, thanks for listening,” she said abruptly. ![]() ![]() There are hundreds of people with pets, living all over Baltimore. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |