Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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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. All of the characters in this book are so well drawn out. Anne Tyler has portrayed each one, with their strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately made me care about all of them, including Cody, who was so easy to hate. Ezra, the family baby, his mother's favorite, and (owing to Cody Tull's greed) a bachelor, runs an original, down-homey restaurant in inner-city Baltimore, dwells in the house he grew up in, ceaselessly imagines a world of affection freely exchanged, The charm of an Anne Tyler novel lies in the clarity of her prose and the wisdom of her observations, in her fine ear for the 'clamor' of family. Washington Post

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reader's consciousness. But no small measure of the book's subtlety derives from its exceptional - and exceptionally wise, the word bears repeating - clarity about the uselessness of cost accounting in human areas such as But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever.Lunga premessa prima di tentare di fissare qualche pensiero su questo suo romanzo, che io considero il suo migliore, sicuramente il mio preferito (leggo in una delle sue rare interviste, che credo dia solo via mail, che la stessa Tyler lo considera il suo migliore, e quello che le ha creato più problemi di scrittura, il più faticoso da scrivere). Negli anni Novanta del secolo scorso mi sono dedicato abbastanza alla lettura dei romanzi di Ann Tyler: ho letto sempre e solo romanzi, mai racconti. Anche perché mi risultano usciti solo su riviste, mai in raccolta. A: My greatest lifelong influence has been Eudora Welty. This particular book, though, was influenced by Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children, even though I hadn’t a hope of achieving anything like that book’s complexity.

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A: My view of this book and its characters both is surprisingly unchanged. I still find its themes important to me. I still identify with the same characters–which is to say, with all of them. Morning Ever Comes,'' and there are piquant links between it and her latest book); everything I've read of hers since then - stories, novels and criticism ( Anne Tyler is a first-rate critic, shrewd and witty, animated, forthright in speech, yet skeptically withdrawn from those who should be closest to her. (Miss Tyler has created, in her books, a half-dozen individual, idiosyncratically charming, completely believable young women;The novel examines how siblings may share the same events yet experience them differently; e.g. Cody remembers his childhood as a harsh time. He blames himself for his father abandoning him and considers himself left to the mercy of an angry mother who favors Ezra. Meanwhile, Ezra remembers his childhood fondly and creates a nostalgic family-themed restaurant.