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      Celestial Navigation

      by Anne Tyler
      Published
      Feb 1974
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      About This Book

      A poignant, uplifting, heartbreaking love story from the beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author: "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 Jeremy 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....

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      Literary

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      Apr 1983 Warner ISBN13 9780446311694 ISBN10 0446311693
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      Jun 1984 Berkley ISBN13 9780425070130 ISBN10 0425070131
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      Nov 1985 Berkley ISBN13 9780425091425 ISBN10 0425091422
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      Nov 1992 Ivy ISBN13 9780804108881 ISBN10 0804108889
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      Feb 1996 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099480112 ISBN10 0099480115
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      Jan 2001 Berkley ISBN13 9780425086384 ISBN10 0425086380
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      First Edition Feb 1974 Knopf ISBN13 9780394490380 ISBN10 039449038X
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      Feb 2011 Random House ISBN13 9780307788276 ISBN10 030778827X
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      Jan 1981 John Curley & Assoc ISBN13 9780893403201 ISBN10 0893403202
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      Jan 1994 John Curley & Assoc ISBN13 9780792719762 ISBN10 079271976X
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