Description
After the death of his mother, Jeremy Pauling—an inward, gentle bachelor who has spent his life crafting meticulous scale models of the heavens—finds his carefully ordered world suddenly disrupted by family obligations and complicated arrivals. As his out-of-town sisters press him to change his life and a new romantic entanglement brings unexpected people into the boarding house, Jeremy is drawn into choices that test his solitude and his sense of purpose. In Anne Tyler’s character-driven style—wry, humane, and quietly observant—*Celestial Navigation* follows a man who measures distance in stars while learning how to navigate the far messier coordinates of love, family, and selfhood. With themes of longing, reinvention, and the difference between dreaming and doing, this novel turns everyday life into a kind of skyward map.
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paperback
Knopf
Published Jan 1, 1974
273 pages
ISBN: 9780394490380
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First Published
1974
Language
eng
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