Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant
ISBN: 9780099916406
Publication Date: 17 September 1992

One of five Anne Tyler novels reissued in stunning new jackets

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were 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 its secrets.

'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

'A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.' - Boston Globe

'In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.' - The New Yorker

'A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.' - Newsweek