Accidental Tourist - Hardcover
The story of a travel-hating writer of travel books, Macon Leafy, who systematically avoids adventure... until he meets the frizzy-haired, stiletto-heeled, astonishing Muriel (she's trying to train his unmanageable Welsh corgi, Edward), who up-ends Macon's world and thrusts him into engagement with life. Anne Tyler's most famous best seller.
Winner of the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. 2 cassettes.
Winner of the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. 2 cassettes.
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"A beautiful, incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating book... There's magic in it... comic scenes that explode with joy."-- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
"Brilliant...poignant [and] funny...One of her best." -- Larry McMurtry, The New York Times Book Review
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"Brilliant...poignant [and] funny...One of her best." -- Larry McMurtry, The New York Times Book Review
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. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, Vinegar Girl, is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew.
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- PublisherPenguin Viking
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0670808164
- ISBN 13 9780670808168
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages355
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