Without Anne Tyler American fiction would be an immeasurably bleakerplace.NEWSDAYEvie Decker is a shy slightly plump teenager lonely andsilent. But her quiet li... » 

Without Anne Tyler American fiction would be an immeasurably bleakerplace.NEWSDAYEvie Decker is a shy slightly plump teenager lonely andsilent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of DrumstringsCasey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meethim bursting out of her lonely shelland into the attentive gaze of theintangible man who becomes all too real.... From the Paperback edition. «