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| 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... summary from source:
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... summary from source:
 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...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Summary
4,909 words, approx. 16 pagesDinner 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... summary from source:
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
1,050 words, approx. 4 pages
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... summary from source:
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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