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Mar 12, 1982 · March 16, 2020. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a character-driven story about the Tulls, a Baltimore family consisting of Pearl, the mother, and her three children: Cody, Jenny, and Ezra. Pearl, now older and in poor health, is reflecting on past memories of her life and her family. Cody, Jenny, and Ezra are fairly dissimilar and have all ...
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Anne Tyler is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 20 novels, the best known of which are Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1983), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the third won it.
Another of Tyler's family portraits: again she draws forth that elusive aura of redemptive family unity—despite snapped loyalties, devastating loneliness, and the conflicts between those who hit life hard and those who live life at a slant. Ezra Tull—one of Tyler's gentle, bumbling men—is, unlike his meddlesome, reproachful mother Pearl, a feeder. And at his Homesick Restaurant, an ...
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Mar 17, 2016 · I'm surprised how much I related to the characters in this book. All of us see the world through our own filters, shaped by our ability to process past life eve
Our Reading Guide for Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler includes a Book Club Discussion Guide, Book Review, Plot Summary-Synopsis and Author Bio. - Page #1
A brief essay on the role of memory in Tyler's novels. Alice Hall Petty, "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant," in her Understanding Anne Tyler, University of South Carolina Press, 1990, pp. 186-209 ...
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11. Why did Anne Tyler name the novel after Ezra’s restaurant? 12. One of the great tragedies of Ezra’s life is his failure to get his family to actually finish a meal at his restaurant. What is it that makes the completion of a family dinner at the Homesick Restaurant so important to Ezra? 13.
