by Anne Tyler · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099745815
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«The Accidental Tourist» is the contemporary fiction novel by Anne Tyler, published by Vintage Books in paperback (353 pages, in English).
Macon Leary, a writer of travel guides who hates traveling, has built an isolated, routine life. His encounter with Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer, disrupts his order and shows him an unforeseen connection with life and with others.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; originally published in 1985.
For readers of contemporary fiction and book clubs seeking a novel of characters and everyday relationships.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
