The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Anne Tyler

The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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Author: Anne Tyler
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-04-09
ISBN: 0345452003
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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  • ISBN13: 9780345452009
  • Condition: New
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Book Review: Interesting and believable characters
Summary: 5 Stars

All of Anne Tyler's book have very flawed and weird characters, but they never seem far-fetched. After reading The Accidental Tourist, I feel like I know those people and I miss them when the book is over. In The Accidental Tourist, Macon is a methodical man who writes guidebooks and has a crazy dog. Muriel is a dog trainer who is very impulsive and talks constantly. They are flawed characters, but as a reader, you can't help but fall in love with them. It is a book that worth reading and re-reading. I think it might be the best book I've read in a long time.

Summary of The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)


?POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.?
?The New York Times

Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon?s insular world?and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.

?BITTERSWEET . . . EVOCATIVE . . . It?s easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners . . . Tyler [is] a writer of great compassion.?
?The Boston Globe

?Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one.?
?Los Angeles Times

?A DELIGHT . . . A GRACEFUL COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GETTING THROUGH LIFE.?
?The Wall Street Journal

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