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| Title | : | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
| Author | : | Anne Tyler |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 303 pages |
| Published | : | August 27th 1996 by Ballantine Books (first published March 12th 1982) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Novels. Literature. American. Adult Fiction |
Anne Tyler
Paperback | Pages: 303 pages Rating: 3.81 | 24099 Users | 1877 Reviews
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Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it, secrets.Present Books Supposing Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
| Original Title: | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
| ISBN: | 0449911594 (ISBN13: 9780449911594) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1983), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1983), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1982), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Hardcover) (1983) |
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Ratings: 3.81 From 24099 Users | 1877 ReviewsWrite-Up Based On Books Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
This is my second encounter with Anne Tyler's books and this time is as good as the first one.Pearl Tull raises her three kids after her husband just pack up and go. It's in the 1940 somewhere and there's not much a fuzz when it happens. Pearl stays loyal to the scroundel but also turns out to be an often miss-understood, mean and abusive mother. Most of the time it is verbal, but the effect on her children is as damaging as their father's abandonment. How they approached life is evident in the4.5 stars -- a great read for my holiday season theme of family relationships and dynamics. If you think your family is dysfunctional and the people you're close to are full of grudges from past hurts, and angry about miscommunication and childhood psychological abuse -- reading about this bunch will probably make you feel at least a little better about your situation (!).... I read this fairly quickly and really enjoyed seeing the story unfold from the perspective of each character -- chiefly
Since I finished DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT yesterday, I have started at least five very different reviews of the novel. I've got a bad case of Prufrockitis. I'm stuck on the "overwhelming question": What am I really willing to pay attention to? As Tyler's work reminds us, what we pay attention to, not only reveals who we are, but also --to a great extent -- shapes who we become. And yet, despite its importance, this point is not what I want to focus on. That I keep discarding drafts of
Usually I really enjoy Anne Tyler's books but I was not able to really engage with this one. It is a story of a dysfunctional family viewed in separate chapters by different members of the family. The book starts well with the mother on her death bed recalling her life and I had great hopes for it at that point. However as we progress through all the very unlikable members of her family I lost sympathy and then interest. At the end I cannot even remember the names of all the main characters. Not
This was my second read by Anne Tyler, and I instantly knew that I loved it as much as the first one. However, it wasn't until the very last pages until I realized what it is exactly that I love so much about her stories: They speak the truth! From the two books I've read by her so far (this one and "A Spool of Blue Thread"), I can gather that Anne Tyler writes about family life and the dynamics between family members. She's a master at creating a clever plot that hides things and leaves you
#2016-usa-geography-challenge: MARYLANDOnce again, Anne Tyler has written a terrific book about broken families and eccentric, wounded people. The Tull family appears to have survived their father walking out on them as children but every family member seems to remember the events of their childhood a bit differently. Was Pearl a loving mother or an abusive shrew? Or was she just doing the best she could in a difficult situation? What experiences we give emphasis to seem to shape who we become
This is my first time to read 3 books by an author in succession: one, two, three... Just like the saying when it rains, it pours, I am having an Anne Tyler Book Festival. After reading her The Accidental Tourist I went to the bookstore and bought Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and read right away. Then last Friday, when I was winding down with the second book, I bought Breathing Lessons and I am now reading it. The whole experience is like finding a gold mine. Here is Anne Tyler who I never
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