abstract:A Patchwork Planet is a novel by Anne Tyler. Published in 1998, it tells the story of Barnaby Gaitlin, anti-hero and failure who suffers from more than the usual quota of misfortune.
The continentsmay have been in atotaldeepfreeze, or the planetmay have simply been subjected to a patchwork of constantly movingglaciersor icebergs-or something in between.