| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Contributor(s): Tyler, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0449911594 ISBN-13: 9780449911594 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: "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.... "From the Paperback edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008273945 |
| Lexile Measure: 720 |
| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.3" W x 8.5" (0.60 lbs) 320 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 73925 Reading Level: 5.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A "funny, heart-hammering, wise" (The New York Times) best-selling portrait of a family that will remind you why to read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love (PEOPLE). Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their memories--some painful--which hold them together despite their differences. Hardened by life's disappointments, wealthy, charismatic Cody has turned cruel and envious. Thrice-married Jenny is errant and passionate. And Ezra, the flawed saint of the family, who stayed at home to look after his mother, runs a restaurant where he cooks what other people are homesick for, stubbornly yearning for the perfect family he never had. Now gathered during a time of loss, they will reluctantly unlock the shared secrets of their past and discover if what binds them together is stronger than what tears them apart. " In Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler] has arrived at a new level of power." --John Updike, The New Yorker "Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, and] strewn with the banana peels of love." --Cosmopolitan |