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Celestial Navigation
by Tyler, Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Slight vertical crease to spine; light wear to dust jacket, else fine. KWH-392
- Seller
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Addison, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Slight vertical crease to spine; light wear to dust jacket, else fine. KWH-392. [SIGNED] Anne Tyler. Celestial Navigation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition.
Signed by Anne Tyler and additionally inscribed on enclosed post-it: Please! No more! / (Or I'll never have / time to write any / new ones.) at.
Octavo. [276]pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, stamped in black to spine, front cover in blind, green top-stain, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $6.95.
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Signed by Anne Tyler and additionally inscribed on enclosed post-it: Please! No more! / (Or I'll never have / time to write any / new ones.) at.
Octavo. [276]pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, stamped in black to spine, front cover in blind, green top-stain, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $6.95.
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Synopsis
Anne Tyler is the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Breathing Lessons , and many other acclaimed works of fiction. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post , and Harper's . She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband and two children.
Reviews
On Oct 4 2009, Suomalainen said:
I was very disappointed with the ending. I couldn't believe Mary's reaction. Yet on the other hand, it exemplified just how little we know about the people in our lives. For Jeremy to leave the safety of his home and travel first by walking, then by waiting with others at a bus stop, then riding on the bus to a place he's never been before, and finally finding his way to Mary and the children should have had Mary doing cartwheels of happiness. To see how Mary reacted made me look at how I react to those I love, and it was that insight that made the book very much worth reading. I'm also a teacher, and Jeremy resembles my autistic students who exhibit many of the same behaviors. I was hoping that even though Jeremy and Mary did not get back together (were they ever together?), that he and the children would have remained in touch. It's always the children who suffer because the "grown" people can't be more accepting of one another.
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Details
- Bookseller
- InkQ Rare Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 392
- Title
- Celestial Navigation
- Author
- Tyler, Anne
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight vertical crease to spine; light wear to dust jacket, else fine. KWH-392
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- Fiction, Novels
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