Discover a beautiful story of what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne Tyler
How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?
With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.
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'One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty
'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan
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'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks
'The Accidental Tourist has to be my favourite' Jacqueline Wilson
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance and Redhead by the Side of the Road.
In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Title: THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST
Author: ANNE TYLER
ISBN: 9780099480013
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 1995-05-04
Number of Pages: 416
Weight: 0.2586 kg
Her masterpiece * Daily Mail *
Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive * Independent on Sunday *
Anne Tyler gets better with every book, and this one is a triumph - funny, profound, sad and ultimately reassuring * Sunday Telegraph *
Warmly entertaining and sharply organised against cuteness or mush * Guardian *
The Accidental Tourist is one of Anne Tyler's best books * New York Times *
A beautiful, incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating book... The Accidental Tourist cuts so close to the bone that it leaves one aching with pleasure and pain. Words fail me: one cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this * Washington Post *
Everything this author writes is shot through with intelligent insight, humour and humanity * Daily Mail *
