About the book
Macon Leary likes the ordinary. A travel writer who hates travel, he prefers instead to indulge in the comforts of home. His travel guides, authored with the traveling businessman in mind, offers not the points of interest, but the places of familiarity in these foreign locales.
But with his son's death, Leary's simple, orderly life is thrown into chaos. His marriage is crumbling around him, his wife Sarah has left him, and an injury forces him to move back in with his siblings accompanied by his dog Edward, who is too willful to be negotiated with. Leary is out of his depth, until he meets the charming and vivacious Muriel, a dog-obedience trainer with a strange sense of fashion and a whirlwind of personality. Wrangling both Edward and Macon, Muriel up-ends Macon's insular world and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.
Editions of The Accidental Tourist
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780385690997
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780345452009
- EBook
- ISBN 9780307416834
- EBook
- ISBN 9780385691406
- Audiobook
- ISBN 9780394556734
- Audiobook
- ISBN 9780394558660
- Audiobook
- ISBN 9780736616577
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Macon Leary likes the ordinary. A travel writer who hates travel, he prefers instead to indulge in the comforts of home. His travel guides, authored with the traveling businessman in mind, offers not the points of interest, but the places of familiarity in these foreign locales.
But with his son's death, Leary's simple, orderly life is thrown into chaos. His marriage is crumbling around him, his wife Sarah has left him, and an injury forces him to move back in with his siblings accompanied by his dog Edward, who is too willful to be negotiated with. Leary is out of his depth, until he meets the charming and vivacious Muriel, a dog-obedience trainer with a strange sense of fashion and a whirlwind of personality. Wrangling both Edward and Macon, Muriel up-ends Macon's insular world and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.
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What is The Accidental Tourist about?
Macon Leary likes the ordinary. A travel writer who hates travel, he prefers instead to indulge in the comforts of home. His travel guides, authored with the traveling businessman in mind, offers not the points of interest, but the places of familiarity in these foreign locales.
But with his son's death, Leary's simple, orderly life is thrown into chaos. His marriage is crumbling around him, his wife Sarah has left him, and an injury forces him to move back in with his siblings accompanied by his dog Edward, who is too willful to be negotiated with. Leary is out of his depth, until he meets the charming and vivacious Muriel, a dog-obedience trainer with a strange sense of fashion and a whirlwind of personality. Wrangling both Edward and Macon, Muriel up-ends Macon's insular world and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Accidental Tourist?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Accidental Tourist?
Anne Tyler
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The Accidental Tourist is available as paperback(ISBN 9780385690997) and paperback(ISBN 9780345452009) and ebook(ISBN 9780307416834) and ebook(ISBN 9780385691406) and audiobook(ISBN 9780394556734) and audiobook(ISBN 9780394558660) and audiobook(ISBN 9780736616577)
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