title: Noah's Compass
author:  Anne Tyler 
description: Starred Review. Like Tyler's previous protagonists, Liam Pennywell is a man of unexceptional talents, plain demeanor, modest means and curtailed ambition. At age 60, he's 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. Tyler's gift is to make the reader empathize with this flawed but decent man, and to marvel at how this determinedly low-key, plainspoken novelist achieves miracles of insight and understanding. <i>(Jan.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: ALSO BY ANNE TYLER
  If Morning Ever Comes
  The Tin Can Tree
  A Slipping-Down Life
  The Clock Winder
  Celestial Navigation
  Searching for Caleb
  Earthly Possessions
  Morgan’s Passing
  Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  The Accidental Tourist
  Breathing Lessons
  Saint Maybe
  Ladder of Years
  A Patchwork Planet
  Back When We Were Grownups
  The Amateur Marriage
  Digging to America
  Noah’s Compass
  The Beginner’s Goodbye
  A Spool of Blue Thread
  Vinegar Girl
  Clock Dance
  
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  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
  Copyright © 2020 by Anne Tyler
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Names: Tyler, Anne, author.
  Title: Redhead by the side of the road / Anne Tyler.
  Description: First edition. | 