Anne Tyler
Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Anne Tyler talks to Harriett Gilbert about her own personal favourite novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
World Book Club visits the home of the Pulitzer-Prize winning author Anne Tyler, in the city of Baltimore. From her spare, elegant writing room Anne talks to Harriett Gilbert about her own personal favourite novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Abandoned by her salesman husband, fierce, sometimes cruel matriarch, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed charmer, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and intense. Now as Pearl lies dying with her children around her, the past is unlocked, each character with their own searing take on it.
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Anne Tyler on Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Duration: 00:42
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- Sun 8 Mar 2015 20:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Wed 11 Mar 2015 09:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
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