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  • Published: 2 March 2023
  • ISBN: 9780099916406
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant




From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style

* One of the Daily Telegraph's 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME *

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything.

The Tulls of Baltimore are 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 it its secrets.

**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 1 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

'One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty

'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan

'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve

'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks

  • Published: 2 March 2023
  • ISBN: 9780099916406
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.

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Praise for Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Her best novel

Guardian

Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer

Observer

A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise.superb

New York Times Book Review

The most impressive American novelist of her generation

Sunday Telegraph

A classic of contemporary Americana.variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving

Los Angeles Times

[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing - Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write.

Nick Hornby, UK Press Syndication

The best of Tyler's many excellent books

Daily Telegraph THE 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME

I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, but to be honest, anything by Tyler will do. She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a proper family saga filled with beady but compassionate takes on all of the unforgettable characters. Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that

Hadley Freeman, Good Housekeeping

Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry

Sunday Telegraph

Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment

New York Times Book Review

A terrific writer... She's changed my perception on life

Anna Chancellor

A classic of contemporary Americana... variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving

Los Angeles Times

A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read

Boston Globe

A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well

Newsweek

In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power

The New Yorker

Her best novel

Guardian

Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer

Observer

A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise.superb

New York Times Book Review

The most impressive American novelist of her generation

Sunday Telegraph

A classic of contemporary Americana.variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving

Los Angeles Times

[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing - Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write.

Nick Hornby, UK Press Syndication

The best of Tyler's many excellent books

Daily Telegraph THE 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME

I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, but to be honest, anything by Tyler will do. She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a proper family saga filled with beady but compassionate takes on all of the unforgettable characters. Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that

Hadley Freeman, Good Housekeeping

Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry

Sunday Telegraph

Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment

New York Times Book Review

A terrific writer... She's changed my perception on life

Anna Chancellor

A classic of contemporary Americana... variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving

Los Angeles Times

A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read

Boston Globe

A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well

Newsweek

In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power

The New Yorker