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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant [Large Print] (Hardcover)

by Anne Tyler (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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  • Hardcover: 294 pages
  • Publisher: ISIS Publishing; Large Print edition edition (Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753166461
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753166468
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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From the author of A TIN CAN TREE, IF MORNING EVER COMES and THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, a title featuring a woman who is abandoned by her husband and forced to raise their three children alone. When she begins to die, the past and its many secrets are revealed.

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One of five Anne Tyler novels reissued in stunning new jackets --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant novel of family dynamics, 15 Dec 2002
By S. Zigmond (Yorkshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Paperback)
Pearl Tull is dying. As she slips into unconciousness she thinks about her struggle to raise her two sons, Cody and Ezra and her daughter Jenny after her husband walked out on her when they were very young. Now grown up, her children, however, see their childhood quite differently. As family events are told from their varying viewpoints, a complex story of hurt, jealousy, resentment and disappointment arises.

I have never yet read an Ann Tyler novel that disappoints and this is no exception. In her easy style she brilliantly exposes the reality beneath the outer skin. Her characters are so real, you can almost touch them. Sometimes you want to hug them; at other times you want to wring their necks!

Was Pearl a good mother? The answer, as in all Ann Tyler's novels, is yes and no. She did what she thought was best in the circumstances. And is this family any happier or more damaged than any other? The answer again is more complex than any other novel I have read. But this is not a heavy read. It is witty, funny, but above all, true. Wonderful.

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Center of the Family, 14 Nov 2002
By Eric Anderson (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Paperback)
This is a delicate loving piece of fiction. What is harder in life than to try to understand the perspective of the other people in our family? Anne Tyler gives us an intimate look at each of the family member's thoughts and from this we draw a large picture of a complex set of family relations. Where else does a family join together but the dinner table? It is a spot of joyous reunions and a catalyst for causing severe fractures, but it is a place where every person in the family ultimately returns. By placing this at the center of her tale she is able to jump of on all the character's many stories. This novel makes you reconsider the point of view of people in your family you might have given up on. Your sympathy always goes with Ezra, forever trying to hold the family together. But you also learn to see the perspective of the other members through hearing small poignant details of their lives from Pearl's apple apple apple to the devastating reunion and confrontation with the missing father at the end. Their actions aren't just quirky details, but strong philosophies by which they live and rich points of difference that cause friction in their relations. This is handled with tremendous sympathy and understanding by the author. Anyone who has had strained relations with members of their family will be able to relate to this book and be wildly entertained by its twists and turns.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended, 13 Dec 1998
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This review is from: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Paperback)
A travelling salesman announces to his wife that he is not coming home. Ever. She then proceeds to raise their three children with ferocious energy, suppressing her own fading dreams in the hope that the family she creates will be the central joy in her life. Clever and unfailingly stubborn by nature, she is a fascinating character - one moment lovable and caring, the next a formidable tyrant. This book is a small epic tracing the devlopment through two generations of a troubled small town American family. Tyler's characters are alive and portrayed with remarkable sensitivity. Very moving.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Only remembering the bad things
This novel is certainly more animated than some of her newer productions, indeed it is a sparkling, hard-to-put-down read from beginning to end. Read more
Published 4 months ago by E. Shaw

4.0 out of 5 stars Another good read from Anny Tyler
Anne Tyler knows families! This is a story about a fractured family. Salesman Dad walked out on his wife and children almost on a whim and mother Pearl is left to cope bringing... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Patricia Lysaght

5.0 out of 5 stars Dinner (or non-dinner?) at the Homesick Restaurant
As with most Anne Tyler's books, you never really know for sure where the plot is going to, but you don't really care, as you would probably be enjoying all the details, all the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by C. Vo

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant tear-jerker!
This is one of my favorite Anne Tyler novels along with An Amateur Marriage, Ladder of Years and The Digging to America. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Lulushka8

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointingly mundane
"How plotless real life was! In novels, events led up to something" Maybe those words from her novel point us to the plot of Anne Tylers novel. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Literary masterpiece
What is it exactly that makes Anne Tyler's characters to be so believable, so real, and so close to our own personae that we have the awkward feeling that the book is written... Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Very moving and thought provoking. One of her best books.
This book follows the lives and thoughts of three children whose travelling salesman father leaves them with a strict mother when they are quite young. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome and satifying...truely fulfilling
After reading this novel, I felt as though I understood my own family better. I understood finally the problems that my single mother went through trying to raise four kids. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 1999

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