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  1. 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.

  2. 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
  3. 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 ...

  4. The Homesick Restaurant, which he eventually succeeds in opening, serves as both a literal and symbolic battleground for the Tull family. Each meal at the restaurant becomes a microcosm of the larger family dynamics, with hopes for unity continually clashing against deep-seated resentments and longstanding grievances.

    • Anne Tyler
  5. 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
  6. This study guide contains the following sections: This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion on Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is an American novel by Anne Tyler, published in 1982. It was a finalist in 1983 for both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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  8. 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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