Noah's Compass (Random House Large Print) - Softcover

Tyler, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739328646 ISBN 13: 9780739328644

Publisher: Random House Large Print, 2010

Synopsis

Preparing to retire early from an unfulfilling teaching job that supplanted his dream of becoming a philosopher, Liam Pennywell struggles to remember missing memories of the night before he awoke in the hospital with a head injury, an effort that leads to unexpected discoveries. (General fiction). By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons. Simultaneous.

About this title

Review:

"Anne Tyler draws a comedy that is not so much brilliant as luminous - its observant sharpness sweetened by a generous understanding of human fallibility." (Daily Telegraph)

"One of my favourite authors, one of the very few I rush out to buy in hardback." (Mail on Sunday)

"A brilliant writer... Funny, wise, tragic." (Independent)

"Tyler brings a scorching wisdom, an understanding of what breaks the human spirit, and the ways in which people try to paper the cracks...Limpidly, singingly written, with dialogue to break a scriptwriter's heart" (The Sunday Herald)

"Prose is as bright and pretty as in her best work. The dialogue crackles and there are insightful observations about the way families create stories to explain themselves" (The Times)

Book Description:

Quintessential Tyler but full of surprises - a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, Noah's Compass chimes subtly, heartbreakingly with our times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Large Print
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0739328646
• ISBN 13: 9780739328644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 341