Tyler's readers appear to like them as well. Since the publication of If Morning Ever Comes she has received predominantly favorable reviews. The enthusiastic attention of John Updike, beginning with her sixth novel, Searching for Caleb (1976), has increased her standing. Her recent novels have been commercially successful as well, with her ninth, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), selling 60,000 copies in hardcover and 655,000 in paperback. Breathing Lessons (1988), her eleventh novel, was published in a hardcover edition of 100,000 copies and won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1988. Her most recent novel, Saint Maybe (1991), was on the New York Times best-seller list for nine weeks.
Tyler's popularity rests in part on the apparent ordinariness of her subjects: the power of family, the struggle for personal growth, the accumulation of possessions, and the influence of religion.
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