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	CRITIQUE :: Back When We Were Grownups
		Back When We Were Grownups isn’t fresh in the sense of the story line.
		Back When We Were Grownups presents a good question, a good argument, and then a good answer.
		Back When We Were Grownups is a good book, but good in a way that leaves the reader less than satisfied.
	www.critiquemagazine.com /article/grownups.html (964 words)

	"Back When We Were Grownups" by Anne Tyler - Salon
		The rekindled romance turns out to be a bust; Rebecca realizes that not only has she lost any scholarly inclinations but she also can't be bothered to read past her horoscope and Dear Abby in the newspaper; and ultimately she embraces her life as she has lived it.
		I used to think of Tyler as the bard of the world's unsung nurturers -- many of them mothers but not all of them women, by any means -- a novelist who enabled them to discover the dignity and rejoice in the rewards of their chronically uncelebrated lives.
		But reading "Back When We Were Grownups," I began to suspect that she really writes for those of us who feed off them, for people like Rebecca's selfish children.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2001/07/09/tyler/?pn=2 (771 words)

	Anne Tyler - "Back When We Were Grownups"
		When Rebecca met Joe he was exciting, a true grownup whose wife had left him with 3 small daughters and a business organising parties in their old shambling house.
		Rebecca was a studious, quiet girl with a boyfriend, Will, she was to marry and a half completed history course at university.
		Back When We Were Grownups couldn’t have been written by anyone but Anne Tyler, who handles peoples’ thoughts and feelings with such expertise that the characters live with you for weeks after you finish the book.
	bookreviews.nabou.com /reviews/back_when_we_were_grownups.html (509 words)

	CSIndy: Fine Print (June 7 - June 13, 2001)
		In the opening scene of Anne Tyler's 15th novel, Back When We Were Grownups, the book's central character, Rebecca, saves the life of a shy boy by pulling his slippery body out of a river.
		Rebecca is a 53-year-old grandmother, "wide and soft and dimpled," who, we soon find out, is the organizer and head cheerleader of a large, complicated family made up of three grown stepdaughters and a daughter; their husbands and various children; a single, middle-aged brother-in-law, Zeb; and a nearly 100-year-old uncle, Poppy.
		Back When We Were Grownups ends with Poppy's much anticipated 100th birthday, celebrated in the family's usually festive but chaotic fashion, while Rebecca looks on in a state of detached wonder.
	www.csindy.com /csindy/2001-06-07/fineprint.html (2270 words)

	Reflective Tyler opens up to life's choices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		But in fairness, compared with the recent A Patchwork Planet, Back When We Were Grownups slightly disappoints.
		Family dynamics, aging, the decades-long ramifications of decisions hurriedly made in one's youth — these issues form the backbone of Back When We Were Grownups.
		Back When We Were Grownups ends on a wistful note.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2001-05-09-back-when-we-were-grownups.htm (383 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Critics \| Review: Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
		Anne Tyler has trodden this dangerous line with poised intelligence and kindly wit many times before, but in Back When We Were Grownups she comes close to overbalancing.
		As with several of her previous novels, her 15th is concerned with the vexed business of self-invention and the suffocating demands of a sprawling, ungovernable family.
		Consequently, the tiny tragedies of everyday life, and of lives where keeping up appearances leads inexorably to a feeling of having suppressed something vital and authentic, are sacrificed to furnish us with a narrative of consummate polish, but little deep satisfaction.
	books.guardian.co.uk /critics/reviews/0,,511041,00.html (761 words)

	Bookreporter.com - BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS by Anne Tyler
		The "What if" of BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS, her latest book, is completed by "I realized that I was living the wrong life." Serious business this, what we have done with our lives, the choices made, the choices not made...
		Although her last book, A PATCHWORK PLANET, left a great deal to be desired in its not-so-loveable protagonist, BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS offers us the engaging Beck, a party planner in her 50s who lives to make others' lives happy and celebratory.
		BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS is yet another step on the ladder to her enduring and endearing legacy as a truly American novelist.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0345446860.asp (513 words)

	Reviews \| Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
		Anne Tyler's fans, like her fictional characters, are just one big dysfunctional family, clamoring for her next book (she now has 15 of them), but not always reacting charitably, sometimes finding a flaw here, a weakness there.
		One of the more common beefs about Back When We Were Grownups is that things aren't neatly resolved at the end.
		Casting her mind back to her interrupted college days, she decides to hook up with her old boy friend Will Allenby, the one she was supposed to marry before Joe Davitch swept her off her feet.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/grownups.html (1233 words)

	Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler - Multiple Book Reviews Book Jacket Summary
		Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler: Book reviews, book jacket summary, book excerpt & reading group guide for Back When We Were Grownups.
		Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms.
		But in Back When We Were Grownups she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that we come away not only refreshed and delighted, but also infinitely wiser.
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=787 (513 words)

	Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler \| PopMatters Book Review
		Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
		Back When We Were Grownups weaves a compelling tale of the life of Rebecca "Beck" Davitch.
		In this, as in other Tyler novels, the story unfolds as the main character considers the routines which comprising their daily existence accumulate and the sum of life is realized once the individual contemplates the total.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/b/back-when-we-were-grownups.shtml (1461 words)

	Amazon.com: Back When We Were Grownups: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle): Books: Anne Tyler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Back When We Were Grownups: A Novel by Anne Tyler in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
		Parties have become a business for her over the years, and she is about to give the party of the century for Poppy, her aging relative and roommate who is about to turn 100 this year.
		The book travels back through time, and Rebecca relives her past and thinks over her choices, trying to remember who she was and how she has become this woman that stares back at her from the mirror.
	www.amazon.com /Back-When-Were-Grownups-Ballantine/dp/0345446860 (2260 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Summer Reading
		Her writing is so dead-on and beautifully detailed, and her characters so engaging, that even when her plots are not that satisfying, the experience of reading her novels remains a hard-to-match pleasure.
		Rebecca Davitch, the protagonist of Tyler's 15th novel, Back When We Were Grownups, is a typical Tyler character -- a middle-aged woman who begins to question who she is and how she got that way.
		Back When We Were Grownups, if not quite as powerful as Tyler's best novels (Searching for Caleb, Dinner at the Heartsick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist), is still the work of a master.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:81913 (622 words)

	Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler: Book Excerpt & Book Reviews
		Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler: Book excerpt (book extract), multiple book reviews, reading group guide, author interview & author biography at BookBrowse.com.
		The tiniest and prettiest of the Davitch girls--a little hummingbird of a person--she darted first to one sister and then another, ducking her shiny dark cap of hair and murmuring something urgent.
		Excerpted from Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler Copyright 2001 by Anne Tyler.
	www.bookbrowse.com /excerpts/index.cfm?book_number=787 (512 words)

	Amazon.de: Back When We Were Grownups: English Books: Anne Tyler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		But Tyler knows exactly how to mingle the sweet with the sour, and in Back When We Were Grownups she manages this balancing act like the old pro she is. Even the familiar backdrop--shabby-genteel Baltimore, which resembles a virtual game preserve of Tylerian eccentrics--seems freshly observed.
		In the midst of her busy life as mother, grandmother and proprietor of the family business, the Open Arms (she hosts parties in the family's old Baltimore row house), Rebecca attempts to pick up the life she was leading before she married, back when she felt grownup.
		To wish to go back and change things may not give us that most elusive of states of mind: happiness.
	www.amazon.de /Back-When-We-Were-Grownups/dp/0375431187 (1084 words)

	Large Print Reviews - Back When We Were Grownups - A Book Review
		That is until the day Beck paused for a moment, when she was 53, and pondered the notion that she wasn't who she ought to be.
		In Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler has crafted a unique coming of age tale.
		Beck is looking back over her life, reliving her past joys and sorrows, and judging how her life has turned out.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /atyler.html (759 words)

	Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler - Adobe Reader PDF eBook
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	USATODAY.com - 'Grownups' blithely skims Tyler's novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		That simple truism permeates the works of Anne Tyler, the best-selling author whose novels Breathing Lessons and Saint Maybe preceded Back When We Were Grownups as Hallmark Hall of Fame presentations.
		She doesn't quite capture the poignancy of the character and her situation, but she does bring a sweetness to the role.
		So she reaches out to her old college flame (Fonda) and tries to discover who she is, who she might have been and whether the two may be one and the same.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/reviews/2004-11-18-grownups_x.htm (523 words)

	Back When We Were Grownups. - Review - book review Insight on the News - Find Articles
		Sometimes an obsession with what could have been -- prompted by the perpetual "what if?" question -- prevents us from enjoying what is. This is the quandary facing "Beck" Davitch in Back When We Were Grownups (Knopf, $25, 273 pp), the latest novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler.
		Beck has lived a life devoted to others, whether it was her late husband, Joe, her own daughter, her three stepdaughters or a slew of grandchildren.
		For all its honesty, humor and unpretentiousness, Back When We Were Grownups lacks depth.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_28_17/ai_76997832 (609 words)

	Back When We Were Grownups - Junk Warehouse Product Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
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		Back When We Were Grownups is a delightful film.
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	Anne Tyler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The view from the window was always the same - air and more air - and the interior of one plane was practically interchangeable with the interior of any other." Macon's routines are shattered when he meets Muriel Pritchett, a dog trainer and her young son.
		Baltimore's Roland Park is also one of the places where her characters live, including Macon Leary of The Accidental Tourist, Delia Grinstead from Ladder of Years, and the Peck Family in Searching for Caleb.
		Muriel Pritchett from the Accidental Tourist, the Tull family in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and Rebecca Davitch in Back When We Were Grownuops reside in Chares Village.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anne_Tyler (1259 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Back When We Were Grownups" by Anne Tyler
		Anne Tyler's fiction is readable the way certain white wines are drinkable: It goes down easy, it delivers a mild, pleasant sensation and it isn't likely to go to your head in any troublesome way.
		But as I neared the end of Tyler's most recent novel, "Back When We Were Grownups," I realized that, not for the first time, the author was harshing my buzz.
		In the case of "Back When We Were Grownups," it's downright discordant.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2001/07/09/tyler (766 words)

	grownups - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word grownups:
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	Back When We Were Grownups (2004) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		I didn't really care for any of the daughters or stepdaughters, but I felt Danner carried the movie as the charming and patient Rebecca, and Palance did a great job as well as the goofy 99-year-old uncle who was fussy and had trouble remembering.
		Faye Dunaway was good as the girls' self-centered appearance-conscious mother Tina, who came back for Nono's wedding but usually stayed out of their lives.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Back When We Were Grownups (2004) (TV)
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	Back When We Were Grownups — Infoplease.com
		As she looks back on what could have been, Rebecca contemplates abandoning her responsibilities to pursue an old flame and to continue the education she abandoned for the altar.
		In her 15th novel, Tyler has crafted a finely wrought family saga set in the South, driven by multi-dimensional characters, and just shy of the maudlin.
		Dude, only grownups die: bioethical considerations of in loco parentis on college campuses.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0886606.html (216 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Back When We Were Grown Ups by Anne Tyler
		Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis in 1941 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina.
		I plotted Back When We Were Grownups just after emerging from a year in which there had been several losses and serious illnesses in my family.
		I wanted my next novel to be full of joy and celebration, which is how I ended up with a main character who earned her living throwing parties.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/back_when_we_were_grownups2.asp (1162 words)

	Anne Tyler - Back When We Were Grownups
		Rebecca looks back in her life to the single choice that changed everything.
		She had expected to marry Will Allenby when she graduated from college.
		True, I didn't care for the Davitch family, but I can guarantee that I will be first in line to read Tyler's next book as well.
	thebookhaven.homestead.com /Z_Back_When_We_Were_Grownups.html (410 words)

	Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler: Book Reviews: Calderdale Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler: Book Reviews: Calderdale Council
		She thinks she is unhappy with her 'lot' and thinks back to her first love and how life might have been if she had married him.
		More reviews of Back When We Were Grownups
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	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
		ReadingGroupGuides.com - Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
		Brave enough to wonder what honesty looks like, whether there is ever really a single distillation of self that is unshakable and true Anne Tyler has a talent for spinning out characters … who go on living long after their stories end."
		Her ability to conduct several conversations at once while getting the food to the table turns the act of reading into a kind of transport … In a literary landscape that too often mistakes sarcasm for humor and self-reference for irony, an Anne Tyler novel, brimming with the real thing, calls for a toast."
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