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{{Short description|1974 novel by Anne Tyler}}
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'''''Celestial Navigation''''' is a
==Plot summary==
This story is set in the
==Title of the Novel==
The boarder Miss Vinton: [Jeremy] "sees from a distance at all times, without trying, even trying not to. It is his condition. He lives at a distance. He makes pictures the way other men make maps--setting down the few fixed points that he knows, hoping they will guide him as he goes floating through this unfamiliar planet....Am I the only one who sees this? Surely Brian [Jeremy's art agent] never has. Brian...went on to talk about a boat he had bought....'In the spring I'm going to try a real trip on her,' he said....'I'll sail by [[celestial navigation]].' Jeremy listened with his eyes wide, his expression awed and admiring....Oh, Jeremy, I wanted to tell him, you too sail by celestial navigation and it is far more celestial than Brian's."<ref>Tyler, Anne (1974) ''Celestial Navigation'', New York : Alfred A. Knopf, p. 145-6.</ref>
==Author's perspective==
Anne Tyler commented in a 1992 interview with Patricia Willrich that ''Celestial Navigation'' was far more difficult to write than her previous four novels, because she had finally learned to delve deeper into her characters and to rework her drafts multiple times.<ref name="Willrich, P. 1992">Willrich, Patricia R. (Summer, 1992)[http://www.vqronline.org/essay/watching-through-windows-perspective-anne-tyler] "Watching through Windows: A Perspective on Anne Tyler," ''The Virginia Quarterly Review,'' Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia.</ref> It is also one of her favorites. She says, “Creating Jeremy was a way of investigating my own tendency to turn more and more inward [as I write.]”<ref name="Willrich, P. 1992" />
==Reviews==
* [[Gail Godwin]]: [
==See also==
<!--- As Anne Tyler's titles are always insightful and well chosen, a review of
[[Celestial Navigation]] could only enhance the overall reading experience.--->
* [[Celestial Navigation]]
* [[Shyness]]
* [[Agoraphobia]]
* [[Autism]]
* [[Asperger syndrome]]
==References==
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