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Cheryl Devon Coleman (essay date summer 2000)

SOURCE: Coleman, Cheryl Devon. “Metaphorical Redemption in Anne Tyler's The Clock Winder and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.” Christianity and Literature 49, no. 4 (summer 2000): 511-32.

[In the following essay, Coleman considers the role of redemption in The Clock Winder and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.]

Anne Tyler's literary career spans more than thirty years and includes fourteen published novels, approximately fifty short stories, and numerous book reviews for the National Observer, New York Times, Washington Post, and New Republic. The recipient of a citation from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, O. Henry Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Pulitzer, Tyler is attracting an increasing...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Sanjukta Dasgupta (essay date winter 1997)
   2. Elizabeth Mahn Nollen (essay date 1997)
   3. James Grove (essay date 1997)
   4. Linda Simon (review date August 1998)
   5. Joyce R. Durham (essay date fall 1998)
   6. Cheryl Devon Coleman (essay date summer 2000)
   7. Nora Foster Stovel (review date January 2001)
   8. Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson (essay date spring 2001)
   9. Anita Brookner (review date 2 June 2001)
   10. Ellen Cronan Rose (review date July 2001)
   11. Rita D. Jacobs (review date spring 2002)
   12. Barbara Harrell Carson (essay date fall-winter 2002)
   13. Paul Christian Jones (essay date spring 2003)
   14. Publishers Weekly (review date 22 December 2003)
   15. Anita Brookner (review date 3 January 2004)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

1. Anne Tyler