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

Tyler, Anne

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9780099480112: Celestial Navigation: Discover the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Sunday Times bestselling author

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ISBN 10: 0099480115 ISBN 13: 9780099480112

Verlag: Vintage, 1996

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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., OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD`She's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor `One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty`She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan `Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve`My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby `A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks `Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good' John Updike`I love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner `Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty

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Cr�ticas:

"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)

Biograf�a del 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 Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance.

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.

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