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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Anne Tyler

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#138 of 8,085 books · #67 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1983), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1983), the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983), and 2 more awards.

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant was named to the Daily Telegraph's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time. 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.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781446426715
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family relationshipsMemory and the pastAbandonment

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