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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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Product Description
Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were 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 its secrets.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1760549 in Books
- Published on: 1992-09
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .80" h x 5.00" w x 7.70" l, .50 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 314 pages
Editorial Reviews
Ingram
With her grown children gathered around her, the dying Pearl Tull recalls the difficult years she spent raising them after their father's abrupt departure. By the author of Breathing Lessons. Reprint. NYT.
From the Publisher
I first read this book back in 1984, long before I was in the publishing business. I was traveling through Greece with a friend and our hotel had shelves of books that other guests had left behind and were free for the taking.. I picked up Dinner.... knowing absolutely nothing about it. What a wonderful surprise and discovery!. I felt I had never read anything quite like it.The characters were so real, so familiar that I felt I did actually know them. In fact, for weeks after I finished the book, I had dreams about Ezra, one of the characters in the book and the owner of the Homesick Restaurant. In the dreams, he was my brother and he was just as sweet and vulnerable as he was in the book. I never re-read books because I'm usually disappointed the second time around because the sense of newness and discovery is gone. But I did read Dinner.... again and loved it as much, and even found new things I hadn't noticed before. This novel is truly a classic.
--Maureen O'Neal
From the Back Cover
“Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . Superb entertainment.”
–The New York Times
“A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.”
–The Boston Globe
“A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.”
–Newsweek
“Anne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.”
–Chicago Tribune
“In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.”
–JOHN UPDIKE, The New Yorker
