A Slipping-Down Life
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ISBN: 0394445732 / Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1970
Story of Evie Decker and her unlikely romance with Drumstrings Casey, a small-time rock singer who plays in a country roadhouse
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye."Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place."--NEWSDAYEvie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....
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