The Accidental Tourist
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  • Published: 22 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473513181
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 11 hr 16 min
  • Narrator: Joe Barrett
  • RRP: $22.99

The Accidental Tourist

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7 Feb 1995
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22 May 2014
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As Macon's life falls apart, he tries to tie it back together with routine and habit. But sometimes life just doesn't work like that.

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.

A heartfelt novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage and Breathing Lessons, now available as an audiobook.
  • Published: 22 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473513181
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 11 hr 16 min
  • Narrator: Joe Barrett
  • RRP: $22.99
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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, Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.

portrait photo of Anne Tyler

Also by Anne Tyler

French Braid
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Clock Dance
Half-truths and Semi-miracles
Vinegar Girl
A Spool of Blue Thread
The Beginner's Goodbye
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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

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