num_pages: 355
description: Meet Macon Leary--a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness, and therefore is ideally suited to author an anonymous series of guidebooks for people forced to travel on business, but who never really want to leaLow in Tokyo...Chef Boyardee in Rome.Poking around haphazardly, ever mild, cautions, and perennially puzzled, Macon Leary is an Accidental Tourist in his own life--a journey peopled with the engagingly eccentric characters Anne Tyler has raised to an art form. Sarah--his decisive, disillusioned wife...The Leary family--large and eccentric, who alphabetize their kitchen so allspice is next to ant-poison...Edward--his undisciplined, emotional Welsh corgi...and Muriel--the frizzy-haired, stiletto-heeled, dog-obedience trainer who eventually turns the Accidental Tourist into a happy traveler.--back cover
language: English
title: The Accidental Tourist
titlecomplete: The Accidental Tourist
characters: Sarah Leary, Macon Leary, Muriel Pritchett
genres: Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, American, Adult, Literary Fiction, Romance, Adult Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 103958
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: Berkley Books