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How Suite101.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96568227&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=552009-11-26T14:58:00[This review from the Monitor?s archives originally ran on July 9, 1982.] Despite the pervading gloom of Anne Tyler?s ninth novel, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a joy to read in much the same way Christian Science Monitorhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96520375&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=552009-11-26T01:33:00THE GOOD SOLDIERS By David Finkel Farrar Straus Giroux. 287 pp. $26 David Finkel faced an unenviable task in writing his on-the-ground account of war in Iraq. 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