Tyler, Anne. Morgan's Passing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980, 1980.

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Description: Published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf in 1980. Third Printing. This is a Review Copy SIGNED by the author on the title page, includes original Review Copy Form. Book fine. DJ fine except for slight wearing and creasing along top and bottom edges, and sun-fading on back cover and inside DJ flaps. DJ price reads "$9.95"

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

Tyler, Anne. Morgan's Passing. Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A., 1980.

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Condition: Fine

Description: This is a fine, hardcover first edition, third printing copy in a fine mylar protected DJ, bluish spine. This is from my wife's pristine collection. She was a friend of the Tyler family, she got Anne to sign it on the title page. One lovely afternoon at Phyllis Tyler's house, drinking white wine and talking books.

Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

TYLER, Anne. Morgan's Passing. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1980.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Top corners a little bumped thus near fine in fine dustwrapper. Briefly Inscribed by the author.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Tyler, Anne. Morgan's Passing. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1980.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: [6], 311, [3] pages. DJ has some wear and is in a plastic sleeve. Small hinge tear at rear board. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: for Harold Herman with best wishes. Anne Tyler. This book possibly belonged to the Harold Herman who was Shenandoah Conservatory's Distinguished Professor Emeritus Of Theatre And Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (SSMT) Founder And Artistic Director Emeritus. Morgan's Passing won the 1980 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction and was nominated for both the American Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Anne Tyler (October 25, 1941) is a novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-three novels, including Morgan's Passing (1980), Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). The last three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020. She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her "brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail", her "rigorous and artful style", and her "astute and open language." Tyler has been compared to John Updike, Jane Austen, and Eudora Welty, among others. Derived from a Kirkus review: You could say Morgan was a man who'd gone to pieces. . . maybe he'd arrived unassembled." Yes, this is the odyssey of fortyish Morgan Gowerâ€"and in the soft muddle of Morgan's familial netting and his calls to freedom, Tyler again finds both warmth and a certain hard coherence. Manager (in name only) of a run-down hardware store and trapped within his Baltimore household webâ€"cheerfully sloppy wife Bonnie, seven industriously dull daughters, a senile mother, an addled sisterâ€"Morgan buzzes noisily but to little effect. He's not a "temperate person." He dribbles ashes, fiddles with his beard, and scatters himself through half-baked projects, varied identities, assorted wardrobes. But then Morgan enters the lives of young puppeteers Emily and Leon Meredith: he first meets them when there's a call for "a doctor in the house"â€"and Morgan pops up to deliver Emily's baby daughter on the spot, posing as "Dr. Morgan." And a year later, his home life withering, Morgan begins to spy, fascinated, on the Merediths, envying their "austerity, certitude, their mapped and charted lives." Then, in an antic confrontation, "Dr. Morgan" confesses his impersonation, but Emily understands "he has to get out of his life sometimes," and soon Morgan's love for Emily blinks on like a desert sunrise. Will romance bloom? Yes, eventually. Emily (product of a stifling past) begins to find Leon too rigid and buttoned-in, an affair commences, Emily becomes pregnant, Morgan elatedly arranges their respective separations from spousesâ€"and the two leave Baltimore with baby and puppets, Morgan taking the name of Meredith. As far as wife Bonnie is concerned (and hence the title) Morgan has "passed on" from his real selfâ€"she places a maliciously playful obituary in the local paper. But Morgan can only, in a final summing-up, feel sure that "it matters who you love and why." The Tyler trademarksâ€"surface warmth and humor with a cutting undertowâ€"again on impressive, irresistible display. John Leonard of The New York Times said, "Morgan, like a novelist, wants to be everybody else in order to look at himself through innocent eyes, to be charmed.Miss Tyler, witty, civilized, curious, with her radar ears and her quill pen dipped on one page in acid and on the next in orange liqueur, is asking whether art is adequate to the impersonations life insists on, death absolves. She is a wonderful writer." In The New York Review of Books, James Wolcott compared Tyler to a "sentry or a detective [who] seems to notice everything: the pale fluorescent gloom of laundromats, pockets filled with lint-covered jellybeans, the smell of crabcakes and coconut oil on a Delaware beach, grapy veins in the calves of middle-aged mothers. As a chronicler of domestic fuss, Tyler can be compared to John Updike."

Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.