The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

Celestial Navigation: Discover the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Sunday Times bestselling author

Celestial Navigation: Discover the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Sunday Times bestselling author

by Anne Tyler (Author)

  • New

    Paperback 1996

    $12.30

  • Used

    Paperback 1988

    $3.47
Synopsis

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. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage and Digging to America.

$12.30

Save:$1.07 (8%)

Quantity

4 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Feb 1996
ISBN 10: 0099480115
ISBN 13: 9780099480112
Book Overview: From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Celestial Navigation is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style

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 *
Author 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 Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread and Vinegar Girl. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.