Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Softcover

Tyler, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080410882X ISBN 13: 9780804108829

Publisher: Ivy Books, 1991

Synopsis

"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....

About this title

From the Publisher:

I first read this book back in 1984, long before I was in the publishing business. I was traveling through Greece with a friend and our hotel had shelves of books that other guests had left behind and were free for the taking.. I picked up Dinner.... knowing absolutely nothing about it. What a wonderful surprise and discovery!. I felt I had never read anything quite like it.The characters were so real, so familiar that I felt I did actually know them. In fact, for weeks after I finished the book, I had dreams about Ezra, one of the characters in the book and the owner of the Homesick Restaurant. In the dreams, he was my brother and he was just as sweet and vulnerable as he was in the book. I never re-read books because I'm usually disappointed the second time around because the sense of newness and discovery is gone. But I did read Dinner.... again and loved it as much, and even found new things I hadn't noticed before. This novel is truly a classic.
--Maureen O'Neal

About the Author:

Anne Tyler is the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Breathing Lessons, and many other acclaimed works of fiction. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, and Harper's. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband and two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivy Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 080410882X
• ISBN 13: 9780804108829
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344