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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Narrator
- Suzanne Toren
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 22 May 2014
- Run Time
- 13 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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, secrets.
A classic novel from one of America's greatest living novelists, now available as an audiobook.
Critics Review
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Her best novel
Guardian
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Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer
Observer
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A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise…superb
New York Times Book Review
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The most impressive American novelist of her generation
Sunday Telegraph
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A classic of contemporary Americana…variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving
Los Angeles Times
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[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing – Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write.
UK Press Syndication
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The best of Tyler's many excellent books
Daily Telegraph THE 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME
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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
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Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry
Sunday Telegraph
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Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment
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Details
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Narrator
- Suzanne Toren
- Duration
- 13 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 May 2014
- ISBN
- 9781473513235
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family
Synopsis
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, secrets.A classic novel from one of America's greatest living novelists, now available as an audiobook.
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