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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
paperback
Published:
17 September, 1992
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Description
* One of the Daily Telegraph's 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME *
A beautiful book on family to guide you through this festive season. 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 its secrets.
**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**
‘The book that reignited my love of reading’ Nick Hornby
'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce
'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali
'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks
'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099916406 |
| ISBN10 | 0099916401 |
| Number Of Pages | 384 |
| Item Weight | 267 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 23 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Her best novel * Guardian *
Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer * Observer *
A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise…superb * New York Times Book Review *
The most impressive American novelist of her generation * Sunday Telegraph *
A classic of contemporary Americana…variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving * Los Angeles Times *
[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing – Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write. * UK Press Syndication *
The best of Tyler's many excellent books * Daily Telegraph THE 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME *
I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, but to be honest, anything by Tyler will do. She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a proper family saga filled with beady but compassionate takes on all of the unforgettable characters. Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that * Good Housekeeping *
Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry * Sunday Telegraph *
Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment * New York Times Book Review *
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Author's Bio
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid.
In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.