Liam is 60, recently redundant, twice married, now single, and about to move into a sterile apartment with just his rocking chair and wry world-view. But a bang on the head and memory loss lead him to meet comfy-bosomed Eunice, who is 38, with a penchant for ample-sized harem pants and keeping whopping skeletons in her closet. This new story by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Breathing Lessons is written with such heart and humour you’ll ration the pages in the hope it will never end.
From Pulitzer Prizewinner Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a retired school teacher forced to re-evaluate his life.Liam Pennywell has never liked teaching at a run-down private school, so when he is forced to retire at sixty-one, it doesnt bother him. But what does is having no memory of an assailant who attacked him on the first night after he moved to his efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. Hes driven to recover this memory and at the same time recover other moments of his life that he has, over time, forgotten. But he cant do it alone. What he needs is a hired rememberer someone who will do the remembering for him but when he finds Eunice, he gets a whole lot more than he anticipated.Subtle, funny, and populated with characters that are as real as friends, Noahs Compass is an engaging and revealing novel about coming to terms with change, family, love, and memory.From the Hardcover edition.
