Tyler, Anne (Vol. 7) | Tyler, Anne 1941–
Tyler, Anne 1941–
Anne Tyler is an American novelist and short story writer. Her fiction, typically, is set in Southern towns and her characters are warmly and precisely drawn. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
[In] Anne Tyler's rich, inventive, painful (in some ways) novel Celestial Navigation, [her] hero Jeremy Pauling is one of those characters [for whom] one uses the adjective "memorable"…. Jeremy is a weak, sick, frightened maker of collages who sails, someone says of him, by celestial navigation. Around him are grouped women who are supportive or destructive, his children, his mother who dies "and leaves him" (in the way that William Steig once illustrated in The Lonely Ones)…. Nancy Hale has remarked on how successfully Anne Tyler achieves the "simple truth of her characters." This too impressed me. I found her ability to enmesh the reader in what is a simple, uneventful story, by means of the...
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