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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Anne Tyler author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:17th Sep '92

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From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style

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.

* 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**

'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

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 *

ISBN: 9780099916406

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 24mm

Weight: 270g

384 pages