Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Softcover

Tyler, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099916401 ISBN 13: 9780099916406

Verlag: Vintage, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate., Now, as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it its secrets. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD`She's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor `One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty`She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan `Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve`My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby `A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks `Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good' John Updike`I love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner `Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty

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Críticas:

"Her best novel" (Guardian)

"Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer" (Observer)

"A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb" (New York Times Book Review)

"The most impressive American novelist of her generation" (Sunday Telegraph)

"[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing – Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write." (Nick Hornby UK Press Syndication)

Biografía del autor:

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0099916401
• ISBN 13: 9780099916406
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384