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Celestial Navigation :Discover the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Sunday Times bestselling author
Celestial Navigation :Discover the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Sunday Times bestselling author
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Published:
1 February, 1996
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'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 to turn his world upside down.
**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**
'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce
'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali
'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks
'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099480112 |
| ISBN10 | 0099480115 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 233 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 197 x 19 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
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 *
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Author's Bio
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.