Liam is 61, unexpectedly unemployed, and the victim of a home break-in during his first night in a new apartment, but he can't remember even a moment of that event. What this mix of events has on Liam's life and family is the subject of Anne Tyler's 2009 novel "Noah's Compass." You can read more abo...
On the surface this is a slight tale about a man in his sixties who is trying to simplify his life. The characters are ordinary people and nothing much happens except the everyday things that all of us live through. But Anne Tyler's gift is to make us look again at all those things that we take fo...
Anybody can write an interesting story about interesting people. But how about a good story about uninteresting people? That's a more difficult challenge. This novel meets that challenge.This is a novel that features an normal person with ordinary abilities and no particular passion for life. Unmo...
An interesting notion where a 60 year old man partially lost a memory and in the process of searching / coming to terms with it, found himself. What I really appreciate most about this story is that he kept firmly to his principle even though it hurts. It could be due to stubborness or stupidity o...
Liam Pennywell is a 60 year old teacher who has just been fired from his current teaching position. Subsequently has just moved into a small, modest apartment and on his first night there suffers a break-in. Waking up the next morning in a hospital bed rather than in his own, he has no memory of t...
I’m a big fan of Anne Tyler but I haven’t enjoyed her novels so much in recent years. However, Noah’s Compass is a real return to form. It’s central character, Liam, reminiscent of Macon in The Accidental Tourist, is a sixty-one year old man who is bobbing along on the current of his own life, simp...
I read this book in an afternoon and really enjoyed it. The story had deep meanings, but wasn't a tangle of plotlines. The characters were generally likable. The one conflict was resolved to my liking. The message of this book - Live.
Tyler is always very readable but this story felt somewhat derivative of her earlier works -- Morgan's Passing meets The Accidental Tourist -- and ultimately too sad for my tastes.
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