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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.
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"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)
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"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)
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"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)
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0099480018
- ISBN 13 9780099480013
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