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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

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Author Biography

Name: Anne Tyler
Birth Date: October 25, 1941
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Anne Tyler
914 words, approx. 3 pages
Anne Tyler (born 1941) is considered one of America's most important living writers. Her works evince familiarity with an extended literary tradition, with influences ranging from Emerson and Thoreau to Faulkner and Welty. Anne Tyler was born in Minneapo...
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Biography of Anne Tyler
11717 words, approx. 39.1 pages
"The real heroes to me in my books," Anne Tyler told interviewer Marguerite Michaels, "are first the ones who manage to endure and second the ones who somehow are able to grant other people the privacy of the space around them and yet still produce some...
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Biography of Anne Tyler
9749 words, approx. 32.5 pages
"The real heroes to me in my books," Anne Tyler told Marguerite Michaels, "are first the ones who manage to endure and second the ones who somehow are able to grant other people the privacy of the space around them and yet still produce some warmth." Tyl...
 


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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Summary
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler Anne Tyler (1941-) was born in the northern United States, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but was raised in the South, in various Quaker communities in North Carolina. She earned her B.A. degree at the age of...
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Information
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a 1982 novel by Anne...


News and Journals
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The Mississippi Quarterly
Withdrawals and Returns in a Page of Anne Tyler (Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, pp. 270-272): Embers Glowing Under the Ashes(*).
09/22/1999: 9,611 words, approx. 32 pages
Introduction THE PASSAGE UNDER CONSIDERATION COMES FROM the penultimate chapter (ch. 9) of Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), which I had read cursorily--the easy readability of Tyler's writing, makes this only too possible--and which returned to me a few...
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Anne Tyler's 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant': a critical feast.(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)
06/22/1997: 9,123 words, approx. 30 pages
Based on the work of John V. Knapp and in particular his argument that a psychological approach to literary interpretation can be enhanced by broadening the hermeneutic base to include a variety of psycho-social perspectives, one may argue that an interpretation of Anne Tyler's...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Paula Gallant Eckard
5,131 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Eckard compares Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
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Critical Essay by Benjamin Demott
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New work by a young writer who's both greatly gifted and prolific often points readers' minds toward the future. You finish the book and immediately begin speculating about works to come—achievements down the road that will cross the borders defined by the work at hand. Anne Tyler's books have been having this effect on me for nearly a decade. Repeatedly they've been brilliant—"wickedly good," as John Updike recently described one of them. "Dinn...
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Critical Essay by Hermione Lee
303 words, approx. 1 pages
'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' is redeemed by its singularity from being yet another three-generation 'Depression to Post-Vietnam' American family saga. True, its coy title smacks of Carson McCullers ('Ballad of the Sad Café'), and the structure—a section for each member of the family, beginning with the ailing, reminiscing mother ('Dying, you don't get to see how it all turns out')—owes something to Faulkner's &...


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