Zusatztext Beautiful . . . funny! heart-hammering! wise . . . superb entertainment. The New York Times A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read. The Boston Globe A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer! but a wise one as well. Newsweek Anne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today. Chicago Tribune In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power. John Updike! The New Yorker Marvelous! astringent! hilarious! [and] strewn with the banana peels of love. Cosmopolitan Informationen zum Autor Anne Tyler Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Funny, heart-hammering, wiseAn extremely beautiful book." -The New York Times "A Book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read." -The Boston Globe 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. Hardened by life's disappointments, wealthy, charismatic Cody has turned cruel and envious. Thrice-married Jenny is errant and passionate. And Ezra, the flawed saint of the family, who stayed at home to look after his mother, runs a restaurant where he cooks what other people are homesick for, stubbornly yearning for the perfect family he never had. Now gathered during a time of loss, they will reluctantly unlock the shared secrets of their past and discover if what binds them together is stronger than what tears them apart. Soulful and redemptive-full of heartbreak and hope-this portrait of a family will remind you why Anne Tyler is one of the most beloved writers working today. "[In Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler] has arrived at a new level of power." -John Updike, The New Yorker "Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love." -Cosmopolitan 1 Something You Should Know While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her. It twitched her lips and rustled her breath, and she felt her son lean forward from where he kept watch by her bed. Get she told him. You should have got You should have got an extra mother, was what she meant to say, the way we started extra children after the first child fell so ill. Cody, that was; the older boy. Not Ezra here beside her bed but Cody the troublemakera difficult baby, born late in her life. They had decided on no more. Then he developed croup. This was in 1931, when croup was something serious. She'd been frantic. Over his crib she had draped a flannel sheet, and she set out skillets, saucepans, buckets full of water that she'd heated on the stove. She lifted the flannel sheet to catch the steam. The baby's breathing was choked and rough, like something pulled through tightly packed gravel. His skin was blazing and his hair was plastered stiffly to his temples. Toward morning, he slept. Pearl's head sagged in the rocking chair and she slept too, fingers still gripping the ivory metal crib rail. Beck was away on businesscame home when the worst was over, Cody toddling around again with nothing more than a runny nose and a loose, unalarming cough that Beck didn't even notice. I want more children, Pearl told him. He acted surprised, though pleased. He reminded her that she hadn't felt she could face another delivery. But I want some extra, she said, for it had struck her during the croup: if Cody died, what would she have left? This little rented house, fixed up so carefully and pathetically; the nursery with its Mother Goose theme; and Beck, of course, but he was so busy with the Tanner Corporation, away from home mo...

ldquo;Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.”—The New York Times

“A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.”—The Boston Globe

“A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well.”—Newsweek

“Anne Tyler is surely one of the most satisfying novelists working in America today.”—Chicago Tribune

“In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power.”—John Updike, The New Yorker

“Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.”—Cosmopolitan

Autorentext

Anne Tyler

Klappentext

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Funny, heart-hammering, wise…An extremely beautiful book." -The New York Times

"A Book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read." -The Boston Globe

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. Hardened by life's disappointments, wealthy, charismatic Cody has turned cruel and envious. Thrice-married Jenny is errant and passionate. And Ezra, the flawed saint of the family, who stayed at home to look after his mother, runs a restaurant where he cooks what other people are homesick for, stubbornly yearning for the perfect family he never had. Now gathered during a time of loss, they will reluctantly unlock the shared secrets of their past and discover if what binds them together is stronger than what tears them apart.
Soulful and redemptive-full of heartbreak and hope-this portrait of a family will remind you why Anne Tyler is one of the most beloved writers working today.

"[In Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler] has arrived at a new level of power." -John Updike, The New Yorker

"Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love." -Cosmopolitan

Zusammenfassung
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a “funny, heart-hammering, wise” (The New York Times) portrait of a family that will remind you why "to read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love" (PEOPLE).

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.

Hardened by life’s disappointments, wealthy, charismatic Cody has turned cruel and envious. Thrice-married Jenny is errant and passionate. And Ezra, the flawed saint of the family, who stayed at home to look after his mother, runs a restaurant where he cooks what other people are homesick for, stubbornly yearning for the perfect family he never had.

Now gathered during a time of loss, they will reluctantly unlock the shared secrets of their past and discover if what binds them together is stronger than what tears them apart.

“[In Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler] has arrived at a new level of power.” —John Updike, *The New Yorker
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“Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.” —Cosmopolitan

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Something You Should Know
 
While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her. It twitched her lips and rustled her breath, and she felt her son lean forward from where he kept watch by her bed. “Get…” she told him. “You should have got…”

You should have got an extra mother, was what she meant to say, the way we started extra children after the first child fell so ill. Cody, that was; the older boy. Not Ezra here beside her bed but Cody the troublemaker—a difficult baby, born late in her life. They had decided on no more. Then he developed croup. This was in 1931, when croup was some…