Noah's Compass

Tyler, Anne

3.37

13,259 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 0739384775 ISBN 13: 9780739384770

Publisher: Random House, 2010

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. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons. Simultaneous.

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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)

Review:

‘her novels have a grace and an emotional depth that few romances can match’ - Sunday Times, Nick Rennison

‘Compassionate and funny dissection of the workings of the human heart’ - Woman & Home, Fanny Blake

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