num_pages: 406
description: 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.OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty
language: English
title: The Accidental Tourist
titlecomplete: The Accidental Tourist
characters: Macon Leary, Sarah Leary, Muriel Pritchett
genres: American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, Adult, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 103956
places: London, England, Baltimore, Maryland
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage Books