by Anne Tyler, Jennifer Bassett · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194230773
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«The Accidental Tourist» is the novel by Anne Tyler and Jennifer Bassett, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (104 pages, in English).
Macon, a writer of travel guides, tries to rebuild his life in Baltimore after the death of his son and the departure of his wife. When his dog Edward starts biting people, he meets Muriel, the trainer who ends up complicating his existence.
Level 5 of the Oxford Bookworms Library series, with 1800 vocabulary words.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language looking for graded readers.
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.
