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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. 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. But it's also the case that what is best in each of these people, as in their mother, has its roots in the experience of deprivation that they jointly despise. Jenny's outward exuberance flows from instinctive knowledge of how overwhelming the few - something excessively static in the situation developed in ''Morgan's Passing,'' for instance, something arbitrary in the plotting of ''Earthly Possessions.'' But in the work at hand

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I never read a book with a bad attitude - I fully expected to feel the same way about this book as... everyone else. But here I am, once again, and this time much grinchier than last time. Cody cut into a huge wedge of pie and gave some thought to food--to its inexplicable, loaded meaning in other people's lives. Couldn't you classify a person, he wondered, purely by examining his attitude toward food?”The voice from The Exorcist: NO DINNER TONIGHT!! NO BREAKFAST, EITHER!! GET OUT OF MY ROOM, ALL OF YOU!! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M READING????" all three are linked somehow with the terrible, never-explained rupture: their father's disappearance.

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Penguin Books Australia Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Penguin Books Australia

Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their memories—some painful—which hold them together despite their differences. Once again, Anne Tyler has written a terrific book about broken families and eccentric, wounded people. The Tull family appears to have survived their father walking out on them as children but every family member seems to remember the events of their childhood a bit differently. Was Pearl a loving mother or an abusive shrew? Or was she just doing the best she could in a difficult situation?A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise…superb New York Times Book Review One day later, the book is finished, and my family is starving, but it's actually symbolic. After all, this book is about our hunger. As in, we're hungry for what we had, hungry for what we didn't have, hungry for what we think we want. Most of us are just plain starving. I was ready to eat the book. and that it can't be her. ''It isn't! Look at it! ... It's somebody else,'' he told (Jenny). ''Not you; you're always laughing and having fun. It's not you.'' Jenny glances

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Penguin Random House Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Penguin Random House

Eppure anche lei è scrittrice pluripremiata: leggo tutto di Elizabeth Strout, ma ho smesso di leggere Ann Tyler. Dipende probabilmente dal fatto che Strout sa rinnovarsi, Tyler non mi pare. The child didn't wake. She only nestled closer and sighed. So after all, Ezra could have put his coat beneath her head. He had missed an opportunity. It was like missing a train - or something more important, something that would never come again. There was no explanation for the grief that suddenly filled him.” molto probabile che il primo passo l’ho fatto sull’onda del buon film di Lawrence Kasdan (che a quell’epoca per tutti noi era un faro: in pochi anni Body Heat - Brivido caldo, The Big Chill - Il grande freddo, Silverado, The Accidental Tourist - Turista per caso, poi più niente di notevole). Cody has always resented Ezra; all of Cody’s girlfriends have seemed inordinately interested in his brother. Soon after, Cody always dumps them. Cody becomes a successful businessman in New York. He buys a 40-acre farm in upstate Baltimore, planning to move there and start a family. Ezra begins dating Ruth Spivey, a chef from a rural area. Cody becomes obsessed with Ruth and tries to seduce her. Eventually, he succeeds. Cody and Ruth tell Ezra; Ezra is devastated. As they leave, Cody wonders whether his resentment toward Ezra was ever justified. Cody’s farm falls into disrepair, and it falls on Pearl to maintain it (with Ezra’s help). Cody’s work takes him across the country, and he has given up on moving to the farm. Pearl blames Cody for the sullen disposition that has taken hold of Ezra ever since Ruth left. Cody becomes incredibly jealous whenever Ruth and Ezra interact; Pearl notices a tension in their marriage. Three years later, Ruth gives birth to a boy named Luke, but Cody rarely visits home. When Luke is eight, he visits for the first time. When he and Ezra seem to bond, Cody becomes convinced that Ezra is trying to steal his son. Mai mettere insieme i membri di una famiglia tra le stesse pareti, men che meno intorno a un desco. Le fratture non si sanano: ma forse quelle fratture sono come una ragnatela che li tieni avvinti, e vicini.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.” The novel examines how siblings may share the same events yet experience them differently; e.g. Cody remembers his childhood as a harsh time. He blames himself for his father abandoning him and considers himself left to the mercy of an angry mother who favors Ezra. Meanwhile, Ezra remembers his childhood fondly and creates a nostalgic family-themed restaurant. Pearl, now older and in poor health, is reflecting on past memories of her life and her family. Cody, Jenny, and Ezra are fairly dissimilar and have all taken different paths in life. It’s safe to say Pearl and her children have never had a warm, open relationship. There’s tension and strain, in addition to jealousy among the siblings, which all impacts their relationships with each other.

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witty, animated, forthright in speech, yet skeptically withdrawn from those who should be closest to her. (Miss Tyler has created, in her books, a half-dozen individual, idiosyncratically charming, completely believable young women; Anne Tyler is different. She writes with so much clarity and her characters are so interesting you could almost see, feel, smell and taste them. Her settings are all in heartland USA (Baltimore, mostly) and so, reading her books feels like you are watching afternoon drama series of American families, regardless of how dysfunctional or typical they are. Despite his ultra-competitive nature and his tendency to be mean to his brother, Cody can be a remarkably sympathetic character at times. What circumstances excuse, or at least explain, his behavior towards Ezra? A: For one thing, this book somehow managed to end up very much like the book I envisioned when I first began writing it. That almost never happens. I remember that when I’d finished, I thought, I’ve done what I wanted to. And then I’m so attached to the characters. I still miss them, even all these years later.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. How they approached life is evident in the end when all the characters in this nuclear family comes together to take leave of the very old Pearl Tull at her funeral service. Despite everything she did, she left good people behind. How did it happen? A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well Newsweek Tyler's writing tends to be rather spare, prefering odd observations to detailed descriptions, but she is able to achieve nice moments of psychological insight such as when she talks about Cody: He'd had a long immobile day - standing outside other people's lives mostly... (p. 143). This is a nice summary of Cody: he is always standing outside looking in without ever truly looking in a mirror.

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