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Noah's compass : a novel

Sixty-one-year-old fifth-grade teacher Liam Pennywell, having been forced into retirement, is attacked shortly after moving into his new condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore, and embarks on a mission to recover memories which he lost during the incident, which results in an unlikely friendship with a woman half his age.

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  • "Anne Tylers neuster, feinsinniger Roman über einen Mann, der verlorenen Erinnerungen hinterherjagt und dabei die Liebe findet Als Liam Pennywell seinen Job verliert, beschließt der 60-Jährige aus seinem Haus in eine Wohnung zu ziehen. Er hofft, dort Ruhe zu finden und auf sein Leben zurückblicken zu können. Doch dann kommt alles anders: Liam wird in der ersten Nacht in seinem neuen Heim überfallen. Als er am nächsten Tag im Krankenhaus aufwacht, kann er sich nicht an die Geschehnisse erinnern. Von da an ist er nur noch von einem einzigen Gedanken besessen: Er muss sein Gedächtnis wiedererlangen. Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Stück Leben lernt er die 22 Jahre jüngere Eunice kennen. Obwohl sich ihre Welten grundlegend voneinander unterscheiden, fühlen sich die beiden zueinander hingezogen. Doch als Liam erfährt, dass Eunice bereits verheiratet ist, droht ihre Liebe zu zerbrechen. Die verlorenen Stunden beleuchtet mit viel Charme und äußerst scharfsinniger Beobachtungsgabe das Leben eines einsamen Mannes, das plötzlich kopfsteht, obwohl er schon im letzten Akt zu sein schien."
  • "Liam Pennywell has been 'let down' from his school teaching job. A classical pedant, he's in his sixty-first year. He downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment. Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is proud of his recall. But he's jolted out of his certainty. Obsessed with a frightening gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happened, but finds instead an unusual woman with her own secrets. And a late-flowering love causes more problems. His ex-wife and daughters worry about him, but Liam blunders on. His teenage daughter Kitty is sent to stay - but who is minding whom? His middle daughter, Louise, is a born-again Christian with a son called Jonah, but her certainties leave Liam still more perplexed ..."
  • "Sixty-one-year-old fifth-grade teacher Liam Pennywell, having been forced into retirement, is attacked shortly after moving into his new condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore, and embarks on a mission to recover memories which he lost during the incident, which results in an unlikely friendship with a woman half his age."@en
  • "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."
  • "Als een net ontslagen 60-jarige man ontwaakt in een ziekenhuis, ontdekt hij dat hij een deel van zijn herinneringen kwijt is; het kost hem veel moeite zijn leven weer op de rails te krijgen."
  • "A novel about the life of Liam Pennywell - Widowed, re -married, divorced and the father of three."
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "Forced into early retirement, Liam begins the task of downsizing his life and moves into a smaller apartment. But when he awakens in a hospital, unable to remember the events that lead him there, Liam embarks on a journey of self discovery as he tries to retrace his life."@en
  • "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."
  • "Meet Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night."
  • "It wasn't such a good job, anyhow. He'd been teaching fifth grade in a second-rate private boys' school. Fifth grade wasn't even what he'd been trained for. Teaching wasn't what he'd been trained for. His degree was in philosophy. Oh, don't ask. Things seemed to have taken a downward turn a long, long time ago, and perhaps it was just as well that he had seen the last of St. Dyfrig's dusty, scuffed corridors and those interminable after-school meetings and the reams of niggling paperwork."@en
  • "Liam Pennywell takes early retirement from teaching fifth grade. He is bothered by the loss of memory of what happened the first night after he moved into his spare, efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. 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."
  • "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."@en
  • "Preparing to retire early from an unfulfilling teaching job, Liam Pennywell struggles to recall missing memories of the night before he awoke in the hospital with a head injury, an effort that leads to unexpected discoveries."
  • "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."
  • "LIam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodgin issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certaint and leaves him with a frightening gap in his memory."@en

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Roman américain"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Humorous stories, American"@en
  • "Humorous stories, American"
  • "Psychological fiction, American"@en
  • "Psychological fiction, American"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"

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  • "Het kompas van Noach"
  • "La Brújula de Noé"
  • "Noah's Compass a novel by"
  • "Nooan kompassi"
  • "Noah's compass : a novel"@en
  • "Noah's compass : a novel"
  • "Noah's compass"
  • "Noah's compass"@en
  • "Noah's compass [large print]"@en
  • "La bussola di Noè"@it
  • "La bussola di Noè"
  • "Noah's Compass"
  • "NOAH'S COMPASS"
  • "Verlorene Stunden : Roman"
  • "Verlorene Stunden Roman"
  • "Påminnerskan"
  • "La brújula de Noé"
  • "La brújula de Noé"@es
  • "Die verlorenen Stunden Roman"
  • "La bussola di Noè : [romanzo]"
  • "Le compas de Noé roman"
  • "Noah's compass a novel"
  • "Noah's compass a novel"@en
  • "La bussola di noè"
  • "Die verlorenen Stunden : Roman"
  • "Noah's compass (C)"

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