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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant : a novel

The story of three children permanently flawed by their father's desertion and their mother's inability to cope with it. Growing up in the same house, they all find different ways of dealing with their psychic damage.

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  • "Dinner at the homesick restaurant"@ja
  • "Dinner at the Homesick restaurant"@it

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  • "The story of three children permanently flawed by their father's desertion and their mother's inability to cope with it. Growing up in the same house, they all find different ways of dealing with their psychic damage."@en
  • "It is a profoundly felt and deeply moving story about two brothers and a sister deserted by thier father, raised by thier angry mother."@en
  • "Een moeder kijkt terug op haar leven en dat van haar drie volwassen kinderen."
  • "Cody, Jenny, and Ezra, who were deserted by their father and raised by their angry mother, go their separate ways but meet again for their mother's funeral."@en
  • "BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye. "A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."--THE BOSTON GLOBE Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell ..."
  • "Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life, but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell ..."
  • "Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life, but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell ..."@en
  • "Etats-Unis, 1960. Beck, représentant de commerce, fait subir à sa famille de fréquents déménagements en raison de son travail. Pearl, la mère, femme autoritaire, cache à ses enfants la vérité quand leur père ne revient pas et leur faire croire à un long voyage. Elle vit dans l'illusion, tout en s'occupant de sa famille afin de maintenir un bonheur fragilisé."
  • "Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it its secrets."
  • "Eighty-five-year-old Pearl Tull recalls the desertion of her husband and her attempts to raise three children, who must come to terms with themselves and their father after their mother's death."
  • "Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the oldest son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet and clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the "perfect" family that could never be his own. Now grown, they have gathered together again-with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell."@en
  • "A psychological portrait of a family at odds with itself."@en
  • ""Three children caught in the tails of their parents' past.""@en
  • "BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye."A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."--THE BOSTON GLOBEPearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell...."@en
  • "Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone -Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with its its secrets."@en
  • "Terugblik op het leven van een moeder en haar drie volwassen kinderen die elkaar telkens in hetzelfde restaurant ontmoeten."
  • "Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with its secrets."@en

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Familie- og slægtsromaner"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Adult fiction in German language"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Translations"
  • "General fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Päivällinen koti-ikävän ravintolassa"@fi
  • "Shi xiang cang ting"
  • "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant : a novel"@en
  • "Middag pȧ Restaurant Hjemve"
  • "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant : a novel"
  • "Reunion en el restaurante nostalgia"
  • "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant A Novel"@en
  • "鄉愁小館的晚餐 = Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant"
  • "Ristorante Nostalgia"@it
  • "Ristorante Nostalgia"
  • "Misʻedet ha-gaʻaguʻim"
  • "Het Heimwee Restaurant"
  • "Xiang chou xiao guan de wan can = Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant"
  • "Dinner at the Homesick restaurant"
  • "Dinner at the Homesick restaurant"@en
  • "思鄉餐廳"
  • "Ristorante nostalgia"
  • "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. the accidental tourist [u.a.]"
  • "Ssŭ hsiang tsán tíng"
  • "Restaurang Hemlängtan : [roman]"@sv
  • "鄉愁小館的晚餐"
  • "Dinner at the homesick restaurant ; The accidental tourist ; Breathing lessons"
  • "Le déjeuner de la nostalgie : roman"
  • "Reunión en el restaurante nostalgia"@es
  • "Déjeuner de la nostalgie : roman"
  • "Vacsora a Honvágy étteremben : [regény]"@hu
  • "Shih hsiang ts'ang t'ing"
  • "Almoço no Restaurante da Saudade"
  • "ʻAshāʼ fī maṭʻam al-mushtāqīn lil-ahl"
  • "Si xiang can ting"
  • "Le dejeuner de la nostalgie : roman"
  • "Dinner im Heimweh-Restaurant : Roman"
  • "Večeře v restauraci Domov"
  • "Psithuroi tes kardias"
  • "Almoço no restaurante da saudade"@pt
  • "Restaurang Hemlängtan"
  • "Restaurang Hemlängtan"@sv
  • "Dinner im Restaurant Heimweh : Roman"
  • "Dinner im Restaurant Heimweh Werkausgabe"
  • "Xiang chou xiao guan de wan can"
  • "Obed v restorane "Toska po domu" : roman"
  • "Ristorante nostalgia : romanzo"@it
  • "Ristorante nostalgia : romanzo"
  • "Reunión en el Restaurante Nostalgia"@es
  • "Reunión en el Restaurante Nostalgia"
  • "عشاء في مطعم المشتاقين للأهل"
  • "Middag på "Hjemlengsel" : roman"
  • "Päivällinen Koti-Ikävän ravintolassa"
  • "Reunión en el restaurante Nostalgia"@es
  • "Reunión en el restaurante Nostalgia"
  • "Koko ga hōmushikku resutoran"
  • "Koko ga hōmushikku resutoran"@ja
  • "Večera v reštaurácii nostalgia"
  • "Vacsora a Honvágy étteremben"
  • "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant"@en
  • "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant"
  • "Middag på Restaurant Hjemve"@da
  • "Jantar no Restaurante da Saudade"
  • "ここがホームシック・レストラン"
  • "Dinner im Heimweh-Restaurant [Roman]"
  • "Obiad w restauracji dla samotnych"
  • "Obiad w restauracji dla samotnych"@pl
  • "Dinner at the homesick restaurant : [a novel]"
  • "Psithyroi tēs kardias"
  • "Dinner at the homesick restaurant"
  • "Dinner at the homesick restaurant"@en
  • "Vechera v restorant "Nostalgii︠a︡""
  • "Dinner im Heimweh-Restaurant"
  • "Het heimweerestaurant"
  • "מסעדת הגעגועים"
  • "Het heimwee restaurant"
  • "Päivällinen Koti-ikävän ravintolassa"@fi
  • "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant a novel"@en
  • "Dinner im Heimweh-Restaurant Roman"
  • "Koko ga hōmushikku - resutoran"
  • "Bosuna bir hayat"

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