The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
Discover a beautiful story about what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne Tyler
How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?
After the loss of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon neatly folds his anguish back into place and adapts the household on to more efficient lines. But with the arrival of Muriel, an eccentric and vulnerable dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, his attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.
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Reviews for The Accidental Tourist
Daily Mail
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
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
Everything this author writes is shot through with intelligent insight, humour and humanity
Daily Mail