Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Zusatztext “Beautiful . . . funny! heart-hammering! wise . . . superb entertainment.” — The New York Times “A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.” — The 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 “Anne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.” — Chicago Tribune “In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.” —John Updike!  The New Yorker “Marvelous! astringent! hilarious! [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.” — Cosmopolitan Informationen zum Autor ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel,  A Spool of Blue Thread,  was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel,  Breathing Lessons,  was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Funny, heart-hammering, wise…An extremely beautiful book." -The New York Times "A Book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read." -The Boston Globe Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their memories-some painful--which hold them together despite their differences. Hardened by life's disappointments, wealthy, charismatic Cody has turned cruel and envious. Thrice-married Jenny is errant and passionate. And Ezra, the flawed saint of the family, who stayed at home to look after his mother, runs a restaurant where he cooks what other people are homesick for, stubbornly yearning for the perfect family he never had. Now gathered during a time of loss, they will reluctantly unlock the shared secrets of their past and discover if what binds them together is stronger than what tears them apart. Soulful and redemptive-full of heartbreak and hope-this portrait of a family will remind you why Anne Tyler is one of the most beloved writers working today. "[In Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler] has arrived at a new level of power." -John Updike, The New Yorker "Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love." -Cosmopolitan 1 Something You Should Know   While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her. It twitched her lips and rustled her breath, and she felt her son lean forward from where he kept watch by her bed. “Get…” she told him. “You should have got…” You should have got an extra mother, was what she meant to say, the way we started extra children after the first child fell so ill. Cody, that was; the older boy. Not Ezra here beside her bed but Cody the troublemaker—a difficult baby, born late in her life. They had decided on no more. Then he developed croup. This was in 1931, when croup was something serious. She’d been frantic. Over his crib she had draped a flannel sheet, and she set out skillets, saucepans, buckets full of water that she’d heated on the stove. She lifted the flannel sheet to catch the steam. The baby’s breathing was choked and rough, like something pulled through tightly packed gravel. His skin was blazing and his hair was plastered stiffly to his temples. Toward morning, he slept. Pearl’s head sagged in the rocking chair and she slept too, fingers still gripping the ivory metal crib rail. Beck was away on business—came home when the worst was over, Cody toddling around again with nothing more than a runny nose and a loose, unalarming cough that Beck didn’t even notice. “I want more children,” Pearl told him. He acted ...

Product details

• Authors: Anne Tyler
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.1996
• EAN: 9780449911594
• ISBN: 978-0-449-91159-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle; Ballantine Reader's Circle
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature