Noah's Compass

Informationen zum Autor Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons , The Accidental Tourist , Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant , Ladder of Years , Back When We Were Grown-ups , Digging to America , A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Klappentext Anne Tyler's latest novel is finally out in PB, and it's as funny and quietly moving as the rest of her vast oeuvre. This novel follows Liam, a sixty-ish schoolteacher who is downsized from his job and experiencing disturbing gaps in his memory. Tyler's previous two novels were shortlisted for the "Orange Prize" and together have sold almost half a million copies. "Anne Tyler draws a comedy that is not so much brilliant as it is luminous." "Daily Telegraph". Zusammenfassung Liam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certainty and leaves him with a frightening gap in his memory.

Préface
From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Noah's Compass is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style

Texte du rabat

Anne Tyler's latest novel is finally out in PB, and it's as funny and quietly moving as the rest of her vast oeuvre. This novel follows Liam, a sixty-ish schoolteacher who is downsized from his job and experiencing disturbing gaps in his memory. Tyler's previous two novels were shortlisted for the "Orange Prize" and together have sold almost half a million copies. "Anne Tyler draws a comedy that is not so much brilliant as it is luminous." "Daily Telegraph".

Résumé
Liam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certainty and leaves him with a frightening gap in his memory.