Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."THE BOSTON GLOBE
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell....
Product Details
Price
$18.00
$16.74
Publisher
Vintage
Publish Date
August 27, 1996
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.3 X 8.5 X 0.91 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780449911594
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About the Author
ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Reviews
"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 "Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love."--Cosmopolitan
