An edition of Noah's Compass (2009)

La brújula de Noé

1. ed. Vintage Español
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An edition of Noah's Compass (2009)

La brújula de Noé

1. ed. Vintage Español
  • 2.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 5 Want to read
  • 2 Have read

A los sesenta y un años, Liam Pennywell acaba de perder su trabajo. Lejos de entristecerse por algo que nunca le interesó realmente, lo toma como una señal. Es justo lo que necesita para adentrarse en la última fase de su vida, en la que puede recapitular y prepararse para el final. Entusiasmado por primera vez en años, decide mudarse a un apartamento más sencillo y acorde con su nueva vida. Sin embargo, en su primera noche allí sucede algo inesperado, y días más tarde se despierta en un hospital sin un recuerdo claro de lo ocurrido. Resuelto a recuperar esos momentos "robados", y siempre bajo la escéptica mirada de sus hijas, Liam decide que lo que en realidad necesita es alguien que recuerde por él.

At age 60, Liam Pennywell has been fired from his teaching job at a second-rate private boys' school in Baltimore, a job below his academic training and original expectations. An unsentimental, noncontemplative survivor of two failed marriages and the emotionally detached father of three grown daughters, Liam is jolted into alarm after he's attacked in his apartment and loses all memory of the experience. His search to recover those lost hours leads him into an uneasy exploration of his disappointing life and into an unlikely new relationship with Eunice, a socially inept walking fashion disaster who is half his age. She is also spontaneous and enthusiastic, and Liam longs to cast off his inertia and embrace the joyous recklessness that he feels in her company.

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Publisher
Vintage Español
Language
Spanish
Pages
256

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Noah's Compass
Noah's Compass
2011, Ballantine Books, Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Cover of: La brújula de Noé
La brújula de Noé
2011, Vintage Español
in Spanish - 1. ed. Vintage Español
Cover of: Noahs Compass Anne Tyler
Noahs Compass Anne Tyler
2010, Vintage Books USA
Cover of: Noah's compass
Noah's compass
2010, Charnwood
in English
Cover of: Noah's compass
Noah's compass
2010, Ballentine Books
in Undetermined - Mass market internat. ed
Cover of: Noah's Compass
Noah's Compass
2010, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
eBook in English
Cover of: Noah's compass
Noah's compass: a novel
2009, Doubleday Canada
in English
Cover of: Het kompas van Noach
Het kompas van Noach
2009, Cargo
in Dutch
Cover of: Noah's compass
Noah's compass: a novel
2009, Random House Large Print
in English - 1st large print ed.
Cover of: Noah's compass
Noah's compass: a novel
2009, Alfred A. Knopf
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Translation of: Noah's compass.

"Una novela"--Cover.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3570.Y45 N6318 2011, PS3570.Y45N6317 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
256 p. ;
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25023118M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780307741707
ISBN 10
0307741702
ISBN 13
9780307741707
LCCN
2010047198
OCLC/WorldCat
642843084

Work Description

From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is--well, something quite different.We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tyler's lovely novel resonates so deeply.From the Hardcover edition.

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