Celestial Navigation

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "Celestial Navigation" is published by Vintage for the first time and coincides with the publication of Anne Tyler's latest paperback, "Ladder of Years". Zusammenfassung Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy batchelor 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 mosaic sculptures, until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Tyler
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.1996
• EAN: 9780099480112
• ISBN: 978-0-09-948011-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: ANNE TYLER; ANNE TYLER
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Baltimore, FICTION / Family Life / General, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century