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Revision as of 22:39, 23 July 2014
 First edition cover, New York, 1974 | |
| Author | Anne Tyler |
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| Original title | Celestial Navigation |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | 1974 |
| Publication place | United States |
Published in English | February 1974 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 276 |
| ISBN | 0701120940 |
| OCLC | 737160 |
| 813/.5/4 | |
| LC Class | PZ4.T979 Ce3 PS3570.Y45 (76361214)[1] |
| Preceded by | The Clock Winder |
| Followed by | Searching for Caleb |
Celestial Navigation is a 1974 novel by Anne Tyler. This was her 5th novel.
Plot summary
This story is set in the 1960s in a Baltimore rowhouse/boarding house, owned by Mrs. Pauling, the mother of an artistic 38-year-old man, Jeremy Pauling, who never left home. Jeremy is painfully shy, and has many symptoms of agoraphobia and of autism. The story begins with the death of Jeremy's mother and the funeral arrangements that needed to be handled by his two out-of-town sisters, Amanda and Laura. Amanda is unsympathetic to her brother's inability to come out of his shell, and attempts to persuade him to leave the boarding house and live with her and her sister in Richmond. Jeremy refuses and remains in the house. We meet many of the boarders who form a family of sorts and assist Jeremy in running the boarding house. But a new boarder, Mary Tell and her preschool daughter, Darcy, begin to inspire Jeremy in a new way. Mary has left her husband to live with a new lover, John, who has promised to divorce his wife and marry her. While John is supposedly arranging his divorce, he places Mary and Darcy in Jeremy's boarding house. When John returns to his wife, Mary and Darcy are left rather crushed and somewhat destitute, with no options but to remain in their boarding house room. Mary becomes anxious about her financial situation and the difficulty of raising Darcy under these conditions, but Jeremy and the other boarders help and support her in various ways. In the meantime, Jeremy has fallen in love with Mary, but is totally lost as to how to pursue his love.
Reviews
- Gail Godwin: "Celestial Navigation" New York Times (April 28, 1974).
See also
References
- ^ Staff. "Celestial Navigation – The Library of Congress". Library of Congress. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
External links
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