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The Accidental Tourist

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What to expect

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.

Critics Review

Her masterpiece
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
I’m inspired by every word that she writes
Woman & Home
This is a classic Anne Tyler novel that plays with the tension between the comic and the sentimental
Scotsman
Author Anne Tyler
Narrator Joe Barrett
Duration 11 hours and 16 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473513181
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Availability AU, GB, IE

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