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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Author: Anne Tyler
A profoundly felt and deeply moving story about two brothers and a sister deserted by their father, raised by their angry mother, moving through through the calamities and exultations of their difficult youth into separate strategies for survival and finally into a shared humanity.
ISBN: 280878
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 305
Rating:
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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2.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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 reviewed Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant on + 106 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 13
I guess it isn't possible to give a book less than 1/2 of a star.

When I think of the absolute WORST BOOK I have ever SUFFERED through in my 40 plus years of avid reading this book jumps right to the top!

When I read a book I want at least ONE character that I can like, that I can cheer for, that I can care what happens to! This book did not have such a character - NOT ONE. It has a totally disfunctional family, none of which like each other - NO SURPRISE there!! No one would like these people. As I got further and further into this book I just wanted them all to die, (no that isn't HORRIBLE - this is FICTION REMEMBER) so that I could get them out of the book and so that the book could end! They were all so miserable anyway!

Don't read this book unless you are truly desperate for a soap opera gone REALLY BAD!!!!!!
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Helpful Score: 10
I agree with Lynn...this was an absolute waste of a book. I too just wanted the suffering (mine as the reader) to end. I guess the only reason I kept reading was to see if it got any better. I stopped reading before the last few pages just because I didn't care what happened to any of the characters.
reviewed Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant on + 16 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 7
Classic and heart-breaking. One of her best novels.
reviewed Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant on + 144 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
This one can be a tear jerker. Sad and realistic at the same time.
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Helpful Score: 4
I read this many years ago and it has stayed with me. Great story.
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 reviewed Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant on
The story was very flat and did not draw me in.
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Well worth your time! Tyler is a true storyteller - keeps you turning pages.
reviewed Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant on + 43 more book reviews
Anne Tyler is one of my favorite novelists, and this is one of my favorite Tyler books. A lovely book about family.
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Rambling story of the Tull family - mother Pearl whose anger at being abandoned by her husband turns her love for her children into a devouring force, eldest son Cody who rebels against the strictures, favored son Ezra whose attempts to feed his family spiritually morphs into the very real restaurant of the title, and daughter Jenny, who struggles to not repeat her mother's life.
reviewed Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant on + 91 more book reviews
A book that will touch you heart.
reviewed Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant on + 36 more book reviews
Another great Anne Tyler book. This is about the Tull family: Pearl, Buck, Jenny, Cody and Ezra.
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From the back cover: "Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert St, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the oldest son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet and clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite...."
reviewed Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant on + 15 more book reviews
Funny, heartwarming, wise..It is from start to finish, superb entertainment. The New York Times
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i'm not sure why I struggle so much with Ann Tyler's books, as they are loved by many, but they just leave me depressed. The whole family here is dysfunctional, and the mother was a raging tyrant whose cruelty turned me off from her first rage.
I didn't feel I had anything to learn here. No more Anne Tyler books for me.


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