The time for such brooding is over now, though - at least for a while. But in recent years her narratives have grown bolder and her characters more striking, and that's increased the temptation to brood about her direction and destination, Self-effacing) - has been, at a minimum, interesting and well made. Morning Ever Comes,'' and there are piquant links between it and her latest book) everything I've read of hers since then - stories, novels and criticism ( Anne Tyler is a first-rate critic, shrewd and ''Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant'' is Anne Tyler's ninth novel her career began in 1964 with a fully realized first novel (the title was ''If Repeatedly they've been brilliant - ''wickedly good,'' as John Anne Tyler's books have been having this effect on me for nearly a decade. You finish the book and immediately begin speculating about works to come - achievements down the road that will cross the bordersÄefined by the work at hand. New work by a young writer who's both greatly gifted and prolific often points readers' minds toward the future. Lead: DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT By Anne Tyler. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review DeskÄ«y BENJAMIN DE MOTT Benjamin De Mott is Mellon Professor of Humanities at Amherst. March 14, 1982, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
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