Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler

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Summary

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her 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, the past is unlocked and with it its secrets.

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Summary

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

* One of the Daily Telegraph's 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME *

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 1 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

'One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty

'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan

'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve

'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 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 *

About Anne Tyler

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 and Redhead by the Side of the Road.

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.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001136506

ISBN 13

9780099916406

ISBN 10

0099916401

Title

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

Author

Anne Tyler

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

19920917

Number of pages

384

Prizes

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Note

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