Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Anne Tyler (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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."--]cProvided by publisher.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A "funny, heart-hammering, wise" (<i>The New York Times) </i>best-selling portrait of a family that will remind you why to read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love (PEOPLE). </b> <p/> 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. <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/> "[In <i>Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant</i> Tyler] has arrived at a new level of power." --John Updike, <i>The New Yorker<br></i><br> "Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love." --<i>Cosmopolitan</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment."<b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."<b>--<i>The Boston Globe</i></b> <p/>"A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well."<b>--<i>Newsweek</i></b> <p/>"Anne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today."<b>--<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b> <p/>"In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power."<b>--John Updike, <i>The New Yorker</i></b> <p/>"Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love."<b>--<i>Cosmopolitan</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>ANNE TYLER is the author of more than twenty novels. Her eleventh novel, <i>Breathing Lessons, </i> was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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