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Published: 7 February 1995
ISBN: 9780099480013
Imprint: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
RRP: $24.99

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Literature: history & criticism

The Accidental Tourist

Name: The Accidental Tourist
Price: 24.99 AUD
ISBN: 9780099480013

Anne Tyler

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How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?

After the loss of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon neatly folds his anguish back into place and adapts the household on to more efficient lines. But with the arrival of Muriel, an eccentric and vulnerable dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, his attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.

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Published: 7 February 1995
ISBN: 9780099480013
Imprint: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
RRP: $24.99

Categories:

Literature: history & criticism

About the author

Anne Tyler

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, A Spool of Blue Thread, Redhead by the Side of the Road and Three Days in June. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'.

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Praise for The Accidental Tourist

Her masterpiece
Daily Mail

Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive
Independent on Sunday

Everything this author writes is shot through with intelligent insight, humour and humanity
Daily Mail

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

I’m inspired by every word that she writes
Woman & Home

This is a classic Anne Tyler novel that plays with the tension between the comic and the sentimental
Scotsman