LEADER 00000nim a22004695a 4500 003 MWT 005 20220307064140.1 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 220303s2021 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9781705016251 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1705016251 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rbd_9781705016251_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT13577371 037 13577371|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 813/.54|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Tyler, Anne,|eauthor. 245 12 A patchwork planet|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cAnne Tyler. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bRecorded Books, Inc.,|c2021. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 30 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Narrated by Kirby Heyborne. 520 In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos. But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on an even keel. Still, the Gaitlins (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buying off Barnaby's former victims. And his ex- wife would just as soon he didn't show up ever to visit their little girl, Opal. Even the nice, steady woman (his guardian angel?) who seems to have designs on him doesn't fully trust him, it develops, when the chips are down, and it looks as though his world may fall apart again. There is no one like Anne Tyler, with her sharp, funny, tender perceptions about how human beings navigate on a puzzling planet, and she keeps us enthralled from start to finish in this delicious new novel. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Charities|zMaryland|zBaltimore|vFiction. 650 0 Men|xConduct of life|vFiction. 650 0 Literature. 651 0 Baltimore (Md.)|vFiction. 700 1 Heyborne, Kirby,|enarrator. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 13577371?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rbd_9781705016251_180.jpeg