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| Original Title: | An Omnibus: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons |
| ISBN: | 0425125939 (ISBN13: 9780425125939) |
Anne Tyler
Hardcover | Pages: 1056 pages Rating: 4.14 | 677 Users | 16 Reviews
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| Title | : | An Omnibus: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons |
| Author | : | Anne Tyler |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1056 pages |
| Published | : | June 25th 1992 by Chatto & Windus (first published October 1990) |
| Categories | : | Fiction |
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No other writer captures like Anne Tyler, with acerbic affection and compassionate clarity, the shifts and defences of the average family struggling to keep life under control. This first omnibus edition of three full-length novels, all set in the respectable Baltimore streets she has made so particularly her own, encompasses the range of eccentricities and compromises to which they are driven. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant follows the disintegration and eventual reaffirmation of the Tull family - fierce, embittered Pearl, left by Beck to raise handsome, thrusting Cody, Jenny, the pediatrician losing herself in devotion to others, and docile Ezra, whose attempts to unite them all around a table at his eccentric Homesick Restaurant are the focus of their differences and their bond. In The Accidental Tourist, Macon - a man of habit and routine, who writes guide books for businessmen who hate to leave home - is confronted by chaos in his own family life. Between aching sadness and glorious absurdity, Macon hesitantly emerges from his sage cocoon into the vibrant, unpredictable world of the outrageous Muriel...And Breathing Lessons, which won the Pulitzer Prize, lays bare the anatomy of a marriage. On the round trip to a friend's funeral, Maggie and Ira Moran make detours literal and metaphorical - into the lives of grown children, old friends, total strangers and their own past - and, despite Ira's disappointments and Maggie's optimistic determination to rearrange life as she would like it to be, an old married couple fall in love all over again.Rating Based On Books An Omnibus: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons
Ratings: 4.14 From 677 Users | 16 ReviewsCriticism Based On Books An Omnibus: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons
Different and entertaining, a strange familyThe dysfunctional family troubles me. The book reads easily, but I'm not comfortable with the melancholy left behind. Although there are some similarities to Janet Walls' Glass Castle, "Dinner" lacks the hope of even a single "normal" person.
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated at nineteen from Duke University and went on to do graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. She has published 20 novels, her debut novel being If Morning Ever Comes in (1964). Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member
Don't know how I ever missed reading this. Her character descriptions are so amazing. She is able to capture the personality quirks and lives of so many otherwise left out people. I have always loved her writing. You can't beat a novel by Anne Tyler.
She is my fav female writer now. This is best of the 3 I've read
This book reminded me so much of my own family that it was scary! Wonderful characters who portrayed their own approach to the life that had been given them. We are all fearfully and wonderfully made and we, each, deal with our life in a unique but similar manner as our parents did.
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