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Celestial Navigation [Large Print] (Paperback)

by Anne Tyler (Author)
2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books (Aug 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0449911802
  • ISBN-13: 978-0449911808
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,809,041 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Jeremy Pauling is a thirty-eight-year-old bachelor who has never left home. He has a passion for making sculptures out of odds and ends and he has a terror of beautiful women. The death of his mother leaves Jeremy in sole charge of her ramshackle old boarding house, and the arrival of a new lodger brings him a challenge he really can't handle. Her name is Mary Tell. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her 11th novel Breathing Lessons, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and her latest novel Digging to America was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Unsatisfying, 29 July 2009
By hiljean (Wiltshire, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Celestial Navigation (Paperback)
This is a story spanning 13 years and centring around the misanthropic Jeremy Pauling. The structure is unusual for Anne Tyler with different narrators for each chapter, but despite her usual excellent writing, the storyline left me feeling, like other reviewers, ultimately unsatisfied.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Navigates Nowhere, 1 Jan 2005
This review is from: Celestial Navigation (Paperback)
This book is the one that finally opened my eyes to the fact that Anne Tyler is not the great novelist that she is sometimes thought to be. The ending is just SO unsatisfactory, and the reason for that is that the flimsy nature of the story can't take it. It is merely a silly, unbelievable romance which can be an enjoyable bedtime read, and, as such, should have the right kind of ending. Joanna Trollop can just about carry this off. Tyler can't.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars melancholy Tyler, not at her best., 1 Jan 2001
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This review is from: Celestial Navigation (Paperback)
Jeremy deserves more. Tyler leads us in, very slowly, to a claustrophobic house, where Jeremy lives, hermit-like. The relationship that develops between him and his female lodger, is difficult to believe in, despite its' captivating attraction. I could not help feeling like I should not have been "watching"! If you like novels which remind you of the strange things people do, this is for you.
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2.0 out of 5 stars comme ce comme ca
Oh yet another book about asperges , I think? If I sound in doubt, apologies its just that Ms Tyler never really spells it out so one can't be sure. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars melancholia
I came out after reading this book feeling awfully depressed. throughout the book, we keep wondering - is there hope for Jeremy? Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2001

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