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Title: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler ISBN: 0-449-91159-4 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (48 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Typical Dysfunctional Family
Comment: Dinner at the Homesick Resaurant engages the reader by sharing a slightly altering story as it is told by each member of the family. Pearly Tull is the initial character of the novel and begins by describing the chain of events, such as her husband leaving, which lead her into single-handedly raising her children. Like a typical family of the 1930's, the Tulls are struggling to financially and emotionally make it. One by one, the children eventually grow up and begin lives of their own: Cody becomes a businessman like his father, Jenny goes to college and marries Harley Baines, and Ezra stays in town to run Mrs. Scarlatti's restaurant. Ezra's dream is to, just once, have his entirely family seated at the restaurant for a content family dinner. However, his mother, Pearl, seems to enjoy a little conflict and constantly instigates one. Once Ezra inherits the restaurant, he decides to slightly alter the menu, by switching to a homestyle variety of foods. He figures that this "home-cooked" meal can ease his homesick customers, but honestly, what does he know about home?
Rating: 5
Summary: A Real Family
Comment: Anne Tyler does it again with her extraordinary ability to create offbeat characters that the reader comes to care deeply about. In this book, there are individual characters and there is the character of the Tull Family - an icon each of the family members sees in a different way. Tyler writes of the sometimes tragic life circumstances of each of the three Tull children with her usual eye for both the dramatic and humorous. This book is a must-read for anyone who loves home-cooking and their own lovable, dysfunctional family.
Rating: 4
Summary: Dinner table conflict as a metaphor for life
Comment: Anne Tyler uses multiple points of view in this, one of her best loved books, tale to flesh out all the relationships and conflicts in the Tull family. As we hear each character's story in his or her own voice, another piece of the puzzle falls into place until we are left with a more or less intact understanding of how things came to be the way they are. Like all of Tyler's books, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is peopled with eccentric oddballs who are borderline social misfits, just working at trying to get through the day and make sense of their lives - but it always seems to degenerate into dinner table conflict.
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Title: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler ISBN: 042511774X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler ISBN: 0449911780 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler ISBN: 0345452003 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler ISBN: 0804108749 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 23 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler ISBN: 0449911810 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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