Celestial Navigation - Softcover

Tyler, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425091422 ISBN 13: 9780425091425

Publisher: Berkley, 1985

Synopsis

"Tyler is steadily raising a body of fiction of major dimensions."

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jaremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn--especially when he's falling in love....

About this title

About the Author

Anne Tyler is the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Breathing Lessons, and many other acclaimed works of fiction. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, and Harper's. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband and two children.

Review

"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 *

Edition details

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0425091422
• ISBN 13: 9780425091425
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English