Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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Anne Tyler is different. She writes with so much clarity and her characters are so interesting you could almost see, feel, smell and taste them. Her settings are all in heartland USA (Baltimore, mostly) and so, reading her books feels like you are watching afternoon drama series of American families, regardless of how dysfunctional or typical they are. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-09-02 13:08:20 Boxid IA1919722 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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Cody, listen. I was special too, once, to someone. I could just reach out and lay a fingertip on his arm while he was talking and he would instantly fall silent and get all confused. I had hopes; I was courted; I had the most beautiful wedding. I had three lovely pregnancies, where every morning I woke up knowing something perfect would happen in nine months, eights months, seven months...so it seemed I was full of light; it was light and plans that filled me. And then while you children were little, why, I was the center of your worlds! I was everything to you! It was Mother this and Mother that, and 'Where's Mother? Where's she gone to?' and the moment you came in from school, 'Mother? Are you home?' It's not fair, Cody. It's really not fair; now I'm old and I walk along unnoticed, just like anyone else. It strikes me as unjust, Cody.” the learners - remain hidden, inexpressible. Outsiders stumble on them sometimes, and behave in their innocence as though the lessons couldn't be missed - but oh yes they can.Anne Tyler is a character creator, the ones you may not like, but you know they exist, they breathe, they live, they die. molto probabile che il primo passo l’ho fatto sull’onda del buon film di Lawrence Kasdan (che a quell’epoca per tutti noi era un faro: in pochi anni Body Heat - Brivido caldo, The Big Chill - Il grande freddo, Silverado, The Accidental Tourist - Turista per caso, poi più niente di notevole).

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A: For one thing, this book somehow managed to end up very much like the book I envisioned when I first began writing it. That almost never happens. I remember that when I’d finished, I thought, I’ve done what I wanted to. And then I’m so attached to the characters. I still miss them, even all these years later. Pearl, now older and in poor health, is reflecting on past memories of her life and her family. Cody, Jenny, and Ezra are fairly dissimilar and have all taken different paths in life. It’s safe to say Pearl and her children have never had a warm, open relationship. There’s tension and strain, in addition to jealousy among the siblings, which all impacts their relationships with each other. Ezra would do that," Cody told Luke. "Your Uncle Ezra. It was no fun beating him at all. He'd never take a loan and he wouldn't mortgage the least little thing, not even a railroad or the waterworks. He'd just cave right in and give up." 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.Let it be" is the theme that dominates his existence. He sees himself as being ruled by a dreamy mood of acceptance that was partly the source of all his happiness and partly his undoing.” But it was too late. The words hung in the air. Luke felt miserable; he had all he could do to finish the game. (He knew his father never thought much of Ezra.) And Cody though he dropped the subject, remained dissatisfied in some way. "Sit up straighter," he kept telling Luke. "Don't hunch. Sit straight. God. You look like a rabbit." dying, you don't get to see how it all turns out. Questions you have asked will go unanswered forever. Will this one of my children settle down? Will that one learn to be happier? Will I ever discover what was meant by such-and-such?” to cut loose from the family past; each is, to a degree, stunted; each turns for help to Pearl Tull in an hour of desperate adult need; and Pearl's conviction that something's wrong with each of them never recedes from the

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all three are linked somehow with the terrible, never-explained rupture: their father's disappearance. That was the evening that Cody first got his strange notion. It came about so suddenly: they were playing Monopoly on Cody's bed, the three of them, and Cody was winning as usual and offering Luke a loan to keep going. "Oh, well, no. I guess I've lost," said Luke. A: I do think a character’s feeling about food is a wonderful shorthand device for the writer. In place of “feeders” and “nonfeeders,” we could say “givers” and “non-givers,” and in place of “eaters” and “non-eaters,”“enjoyers” and “non-enjoyers”–two very important sets of personality traits. And everywhere there's a marvelous delicacy of finish, witness Pearl Tull's drifting remembrance as she falls off into her long sleep: ''She remembered the feel of wind on summer nights - how it billows through the house and wafts 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.

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E questo per me qualcosa vuol dire: ci vedo riflesso bene il mio entusiasmo iniziale che col tempo si è andato stemperando, smorzando davanti a una certa reiterazione di temi e situazioni, fino a portarmi al completo allontanamento, che ormai dura da una quindicina d’anni.

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Having read this book twice now I find that each time I am absorbed in its world, absorbed with its people. Occasionally while reading I would find myself a little sad. Wistful and melancholy. Then suddenly, as often happens in real life, a moment of joy would spring up and I would find myself happy. That is a fundamental truth of life right there! Cody complains that his mother damaged them, but he himself inflicted a fair amount of damage of his own! Cody never won me over, not even toward the end when he became more approachable.This book was nominated for the 1983 Pulitzer prize ( The Color Purple won that year), which surprises me. This strikes me as 'lite' literary fiction. But, she was nominated for a swath of other awards for this book. And her readers are exuberant and consistently positive. So I'm definitely an outlier here. Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humor. This new novel delighted me - perhaps her best so far. New York Times 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,