| Celestial Navigation Contributor(s): Tyler, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0449911802 ISBN-13: 9780449911808 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: "Tyler is steadily raising a body of fiction of major dimensions." THE NEW YORK TIMES Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jaremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn--especially when he's falling in love.... "From the Paperback edition. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.80 lbs) 288 pages |
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| Publisher Description: To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love. --PEOPLE Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jaremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn--especially when he's falling in love.... |