The Accidental Tourist Paperback - 2002
by Anne Tyler
Meet Macon Leary--a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer who promises to turn his life around.
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They were supposed to stay at the beach a week, but neither of them had the heart for it and they decided to come back early.
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"POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . "THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER."
-"The New York Times Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon's insular world-and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.
"BITTERSWEET . . . EVOCATIVE . . . It's easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners . . . Tyler [is] a writer of great compassion."-"The "Boston Globe
"Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one."-"Los Angeles Times
"A DELIGHT . . . A GRACEFUL COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GETTING THROUGH LIFE."-"The Wall Street Journal
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- Title The Accidental Tourist
- Author Anne Tyler
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-04-09
- ISBN 9780345452009 / 0345452003
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.22 x 5.56 x 0.77 in (20.88 x 14.12 x 1.96 cm)
- Reading level 890
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Themes
- Geographic Orientation: Maryland
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Men, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002090731
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 09/04/2015, Page 44
- Newsweek, 11/26/2007, Page 16
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