Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Plot: Family chronicle
- Time of Work: 1924-1980
- Setting: Baltimore, Maryland
- Principal Characters: Pearl Cody Tull, Beck Tull, Cody, Ezra, Jenny
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Family literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Children, Family or family life, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Marriage, 1940’s, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Guilt, Brothers and sisters, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1980’s, Fathers, Death or dying, Baltimore
- Locales: Baltimore, MD
The Novel
Pearl Tull, age eighty-six, lies dying as the book opens, and her mind ranges, chronologically disconnected, over her entire life. Through her memories, reflections, dreams, and occasional brief conversations with her son Ezra, she recalls, but not in chronological order, Beck Tull’s courtship just as she was beginning to accept spinsterhood, their impulsive wedding, the births of their three children, Beck’s totally unexpected announcement that he was leaving her, the various stages of the children’s growing up, their “trademark flaws,” her own failings,...
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