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Celestial Navigation

Celestial Navigation

by Anne Tyler

1974FictionRomans, nouvellesBoardinghousesArtistsYoung women
3.0
Open Library
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First lines

My brother Jeremy is a thirty-eight-year-old bachelor who never did leave home.

My brother Jeremy is a thirty-eight-year-old bachelor who never did leave home.

About this book

By the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Breathing Lessons", this is the tale of Jeremy Pauling, a 38-year-old bachelor who has never left home. The death of his mother leaves him in charge of a ramshackle boarding house and the arrival of a female lodger brings him a challenge he can't handle.

Themes & subjects

FictionRomans, nouvellesBoardinghousesArtistsYoung womenAgoraphobia
First published 1974

Setting

Baltimore (Md.)MarylandBaltimoreBaltimore (Mar.)

About the author

Anne Tyler

1941

Author

Anne Tyler

First published

1974

Pages

273

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

23

Languages

English, French

Publisher

Fawcett Popular Library

ISBN

9782253147237

Where to buy

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