Anne Tyler

Accidental Tourist

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POIGNANT … FUNNY … THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.The New York TimesMacon 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 Macons insular worldand thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.BITTERSWEET … EVOCATIVE … Its 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 GlobeTyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one.Los Angeles TimesA DELIGHT … A GRACEFUL COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GETTING THROUGH LIFE.The Wall Street Journal
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370 printed pages
Publication year
2015
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  • Ksenia Makarovahas quoted6 years ago
    He had somehow traveled to a point completely isolated from everyone else in the universe, and nothing was real but his own angular hand clenched around the sherry glass.
  • Ksenia Makarovahas quoted6 years ago
    He saw the city spread below like a glittering golden ocean, the streets tiny ribbons of light, the planet curving away at the edges, the sky a purple hollow extending to infinity. It wasn’t the height; it was the distance. It was his vast, lonely distance from everyone who mattered. Ethan, with his bouncy walk — how would he ever know that his father had come to be trapped in this spire in the heavens?
  • Ksenia Makarovahas quoted7 years ago
    She’s the good one and I’m the bad one. It’s not her fault, though; I don’t blame Claire. People just get fixed in these certain frames of other people’s opinions, don’t you find that’s true?

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