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The Clock Winder; Celestial Navigation; Searching For Caleb
The Clock Winder Celestial Navigation Searching For Caleb Author:Anne Tyler Anne Tyler's fourth, fifth, and sixth novels solidified her growing reputation as one of America's finest and most talented writers, particularly adept at creating vivid, memorable characters who stay with us long after we've finished her books. In The Clock Winder she gives us Elizabeth Abbott, free-spirited and imperturbable as she pauses for ... more »a few months at the home of Mrs. Emerson, the widowed matriarch of an eccentric Baltimore family. Elizabeth's effect on the Emersons-portrayed in a series of amusing, touching, and surprising events-is ultimately overtaken by the more subtle yet profound impact of the Emersons on her. Jeremy Pauling, the reclusive artist in Celestial Navigation, lives in a fortress of his own design, virtually untouched even by the inhabitants of the boarding house he runs, until Mary Tell, the pretty new boarder, brings him out of his shell for a time. Their struggle to break through the barriers that separate them is at the core of one of Tyler's most penetrating novels. At the heart of the vast canopy over which Searching for Caleb is spread lies Justine Peck, the fortune-telling member of the insular Peck clan, torn between the seemingly incompatible impulses to wander and to rejoin her family. Only by aiding her grandfather in the search for his long-lost brother Caleb can she reconcile her urges and learn to accept the road that lies ahead.« less