Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $12.34
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Description
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.
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-28
Summary: "Very pleased"
I was pleased with both the speed with which I received the item as well as the condition of it cassette tapes and case.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-08
Summary: "One of my Favorites"
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, has always been among my favorite Anne Tyler novels. The novel spans several decades in the life of the Tull family of Baltimore, Maryland. It begins with 85-year-old Pearl Tull, blind and on her deathbed, looking back at her life and that of her three grown children - Cody, Jenny, and Ezra. Told from alternating points of view, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is ultimately about how growing up in an unconventional, dysfunctional family affected the three siblings in very different ways. It can be a heartbreakingly sad story, as the Tulls repeatedly try to accomplish the impossible: complete a family meal together.
Anne Tyler is a truly gifted writer. Her character development and attention to detail is exquisite as she explores complex interpersonal relationships in the Tull family. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award and the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. If you haven't read Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, you really should. Very Highly Recommended
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-04-13
Summary: "Depressing"
Let me start by saying I have always loved to read. I came across this book in our coworkers' shared library. After finally finishing this book, I can say it is a depressing book about a depressing "family" (who hate or are disappointed in themselves and each other). Everyone in this book is depressed! What a downer, I don't consider this fine literature no matter how well written. I was appalled to see these reviews and realize that it is on reading lists for students - what a shame! As bad as Silas Marner, which I remember struggling through in high school. WHY put boring, depressing books on a reading list if you want young people to enjoy reading???!
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-05
Summary: "Possibly the Best Book of My Life!"
What an incredible book! My first Anne Tyler and I've gone on to read them all. This book is so incredibly sad, so incredibly sad, so heartwarming, so real, so searingly honest, it literally leaves you gasping. Nick Hornby (great author) has been quoted as saying this is the book that made him want to be a writer - I can see why.
This book literally tugged at my heart strings, I literally felt my heart constrict in grief and expand in joy. It's a masterpiece. Read it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2009-02-11
Summary: "Absolute garbage."
This book was forced down my throat in High School and while that was quite some time ago, I remember it vividly. This book drags on seemingly forever without going anywhere. The characters are very bland and uninteresting. The story is entirely predictable. Anybody who would call this book worthy of reading must be comparing it to a street sign.
