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This video is a symbolic portrayal of the Tull family's shattered bonds and broken relationships in Anne Tyler's novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a 1982 novel by Anne Tyler, set in Baltimore, Maryland. It is Tyler's ninth novel. In 1983 it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, [1] the National Book Award, [2] and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Tyler considers it her best work. The book follows the lives of three siblings: Cody, Ezra, and Jenny, and explores ...
- Anne Tyler
- 1982
Overview. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a 1982 contemporary fiction novel by Anne Tyler. The multi-award-winning novel was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Plot Summary. Pearl Tull lies in her bed, aware that she is close to death. She begins to reflect on her life.
Summary. Pearl Tull, age eighty-six, lies dying as the book opens, and her mind ranges, chronologically disconnected, over her entire life. Through her memories, reflections, dreams, and ...
Han explores the sprawling trauma of political brutality with impressive nuance and the piercing emotional truth that comes with masterful fiction. In her epilogue she writes, “Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke.”. Her novel is likely to provoke an echo of that moment in its readers.
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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 ...
