Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) - Softcover

Tyler, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449911594 ISBN 13: 9780449911594

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 1996

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....

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Review:

"Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment."--The New York Times

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

"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

"Anne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today."--Chicago Tribune

"In her ninth novel she 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

From the Publisher:

One of five Anne Tyler novels reissued in stunning new jackets

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449911594
• ISBN 13: 9780449911594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320