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Original Title:	An Omnibus: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons
ISBN:	0425125939 (ISBN13: 9780425125939)

An Omnibus: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons Hardcover | Pages: 1056 pages

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Title	:	An Omnibus: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons
Author	:	Anne Tyler
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1056 pages
Published	:	June 25th 1992 by Chatto & Windus (first published October 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction

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No other writer captures like Anne Tyler, with acerbic affection and compassionate clarity, the shifts and defences of the average family struggling to keep life under control. This first omnibus edition of three full-length novels, all set in the respectable Baltimore streets she has made so particularly her own, encompasses the range of eccentricities and compromises to which they are driven. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant follows the disintegration and eventual reaffirmation of the Tull family - fierce, embittered Pearl, left by Beck to raise handsome, thrusting Cody, Jenny, the pediatrician losing herself in devotion to others, and docile Ezra, whose attempts to unite them all around a table at his eccentric Homesick Restaurant are the focus of their differences and their bond. In The Accidental Tourist, Macon - a man of habit and routine, who writes guide books for businessmen who hate to leave home - is confronted by chaos in his own family life. Between aching sadness and glorious absurdity, Macon hesitantly emerges from his sage cocoon into the vibrant, unpredictable world of the outrageous Muriel...And Breathing Lessons, which won the Pulitzer Prize, lays bare the anatomy of a marriage. On the round trip to a friend's funeral, Maggie and Ira Moran make detours literal and metaphorical - into the lives of grown children, old friends, total strangers and their own past - and, despite Ira's disappointments and Maggie's optimistic determination to rearrange life as she would like it to be, an old married couple fall in love all over again.

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Ratings: 4.14 From 677 Users | 16 Reviews

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Anne Tyler's dissection of the family unit is always intriguing.

One of my all time favorites

Read them all and loved them. Especially "Dinner..."

My two favorite Anne Tyler books are in this compilation: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and The Accidental Tourist. I always wondered why she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons and not one of the other two. Interestingly, I read Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant at 19 and didn't like it. After reading all of Tyler's books later in life, I decided to try it again and absolutely loved it.

30 (!) years later, so glad I re-read this brilliant novel. It holds up well and certainly has a different relevance for me at this point in my life. Great writing, a profound saga about the realities of family life and life itself.

I have read now about 8-10 books from Anne Tyler, and I'm starting to have problems separating them in my memory. One thing is sure, they are all very well written, the main character is a middle aged woman, and they all leave me in a melancholic mood.