Celestial Navigation by Anne Tyler - ISBN: 9780099480112
Paperback
Shy bachelor’s world upended by love after mother’s death.

Celestial Navigation

Discover the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Sunday Times bestselling author

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    22 March 1996

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Summary

A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time.

“A rich, revolutionary novel… she writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion” - The Times

Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy bachelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother’s boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make small collages - until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099480112
ISBN-10:0099480115
Author:Anne Tyler
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:22 March 1996
Weight:233g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 19mm
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Critics Review

A rich, revolutionary novel…she writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion

A rich, revolutionary novel…she writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion * The Times *
Anne Tyler’s talent is to make extraordinary characters entirely credible… So unfaltering is their story that every word is convincing * Sunday Times *
Tyler has created two characters at once entirely original and entirely convincing…a quiet but immensely strong novel, to admire and treasure * Sunday Telegraph *

About The Author

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as ‘the greatest novelist writing in English’; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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