Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
American novelist, born 1941. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a 1982 novel by Anne Tyler. It was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
In family saga
On 3 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- First published
- 1982
- Length
- 384 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlist, 1983
- National Book Award for Fiction shortlist, 1983
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Family saga
Is Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant worth reading?
3 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and the National Book Award for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 72 | See the list |
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 1983) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 1983) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
The edition we link to is the Vintage paperback (1992), 384 pages.
- Publisher
- Vintage (paperback, 1992)
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9780099916406
How critics, prizes and readers rate Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 67% of the points available on prize lists, against 10% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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