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The Accidental Tourist

By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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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.

A heartfelt novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage and Breathing Lessons, now available as an audiobook.

 English Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Language Learning Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy Marriage Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

Her masterpiece
Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive
Anne Tyler gets better with every book, and this one is a triumph – funny, profound, sad and ultimately reassuring
Warmly entertaining and sharply organised against cuteness or mush
The Accidental Tourist is one of Anne Tyler’s best books
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
Everything this author writes is shot through with intelligent insight, humour and humanity
I’m inspired by every word that she writes
This is a classic Anne Tyler novel that plays with the tension between the comic and the sentimental
All stars
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Ann Tyler is a master at writing about the every day in a way that engages the full attention of the reader/listener .


Human nature thru a microscope

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Classic story. subtly read. Loved this beautiful characterisation, The narrator portrayed the individuals with consistency.

classic tale, very well read

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Such great characters. Loved the narrator. Believe all the reviews, you won’t regret it. One of these stories that stay with you.

Brilliant book!

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The wonderful thing about this book is how the characters develop. They start off shadowy & grey & end up rich & full of colour.
I absolutely loved this perfectly observed story of a couple surviving a trauma.

Perfectly Observed

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The beauty of Anne Tyler is that she writes characters that you really believe in. In this novel you don't particularly like the main character but you end up falling in love with him and with the heroine Muriel.

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