Accidental Tourist, The

Accidental Tourist, The
Anne Tyler
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 368pg
3 Jan 1998 UK
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9780099480013
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How does a man addicted to routine cope with the chaos of everyday life? Macon does his best. He writes Armchair Tourist guidebooks that soothe the travel-hating business man. Even when his son, Ethan, is murdered and his wife leaves him, Macon folds his anguish neatly back into place and adapts the household routine on to more efficient lines. So when he meets Muriel, dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic - thin, chaotic, outrageous, vulnerable - he considers that his defences against love and pain are in excellent working order. Bending glorious comedy with aching sadness, Anne Tyler's novel maps out the landscape of a man's hesitant heart with tenderness, sharpness and unputdownable truth.
"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 "Now poignant, now funny... Anne Tyler is brilliant" New York Times Book Review "A vibrant and astonishing and, above all, achingly funny book" Cosmopolitan "My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world, is Anne Tyler" -- Nick Hornby
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and many other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Saint Maybe, Ladder of Years, A Patchwork Planet, Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America and The Beginner's Goodbye. 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, which recognises a lifetime's achievement in books. Her most recent novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780099480013
Published: 3 Jan 1998
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 368
Dewey: 813.54

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