Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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A: My view of this book and its characters both is surprisingly unchanged. I still find its themes important to me. I still identify with the same characters–which is to say, with all of them. dying, you don't get to see how it all turns out. Questions you have asked will go unanswered forever. Will this one of my children settle down? Will that one learn to be happier? Will I ever discover what was meant by such-and-such?” Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life.

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He thought of how it would be if his father returned some time in he future, when Cody was a man. "Look at what I've accomplished," Cody would tell him. "Notice where I've got to, how far I've come without you." Was it something I said? Was it something I did? Was it something I didn't do, that made you go away?” The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.Cody Tull, the eldest of the children, is driven from early youth by a rage to dominate; he is endlessly cruel not only to his brother Ezra (he steals Ezra's girl, for example, on the eve of the man's marriage) but to his Pearl Tull, the cloud-wearing sun around whom the other characters orbit -- as close as Mercury, as far away as Neptune, or somewhere between the two -- has a "favorite expression": "'I wouldn't know you if I saw you on the street'" (274). But I know her and just about everyone whose life she has affected. sliced out of its context for quotation - so tightly fashioned is this tale - without giving away, as they say, a narrative climax. There are scenes that strike me as likely to prove unforgettable: Pearl Tull attempting, after years

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Da allora mi pare che la narrativa di Ann Tyler non è più tornata sul grande schermo, prima e unica volta: dopo quel buon film, solo televisione. There was the briefest pause--a skipped beat. Cody looked over at Ruth, who was counting her deed cards. "He sounds just like Ezra," he told her. There are a few key episodes in the Tull family history, and we see them refracted from different angles throughout the book. What strikes me as profound upon second reading (when of course I'm much older) is how wise Tyler is about time and memory. The Tull children remember their mother's angry outbursts and severity – one even compares her to a witch – but from Pearl's perspective she was merely a put-upon single mom trying to raise her kids as best as she could. The resentments among the siblings run deep and evolve over time, especially between manipulative Cody and the guileless Ezra, who was always his mother's favourite. Negli anni Novanta del secolo scorso mi sono dedicato abbastanza alla lettura dei romanzi di Ann Tyler: ho letto sempre e solo romanzi, mai racconti. Anche perché mi risultano usciti solo su riviste, mai in raccolta.

Let it be" is the theme that dominates his existence. He sees himself as being ruled by a dreamy mood of acceptance that was partly the source of all his happiness and partly his undoing.” Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry Sunday Telegraph it showed that he realized full well how considerate he was being. 'What do you want for Christmas?' Cody asked him roughly. 'World peace?''' The story left me emotionally apathetic, untouched, yet, sad. I did not identify with anyone, but that was not the purpose of the book. The readers is suppose to understand the characters, and it happens quite rightly in this story. Anne Tyler builds a strong tale with strong figures filling in around the family theme, and that speaks to me. I love books about families. Romantic love does not play such an important role. The connection to reality is much more important and believable, and in some readers' s choice of preferences, more acceptable. And everywhere there's a marvelous delicacy of finish, witness Pearl Tull's drifting remembrance as she falls off into her long sleep: ''She remembered the feel of wind on summer nights - how it billows through the house and wafts



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