The Accidental Tourist

Anne Tyler First published 1985

About this book

Meet Macon Leary—a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new journey. It's called love—and it arrives in the unlikely shape of a fuzzy-haired dog-obedience trainer who promises to turn the Accidental Tourist into a happy traveler...

Subjects

  • american fiction
  • art d'écrire
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1985
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
  • baltimore (md.), fiction
  • children
  • children in fiction
  • death
  • enfants
  • fiction
  • fiction, psychological
  • high interest-low vocabulary books
  • hommes
  • large type books
  • men
  • men in fiction
  • mort
  • national book critics circle award winner
  • open library staff picks
  • psychological fiction
  • psychologie
  • psychology
  • readers
  • romans, nouvelles
  • travel writing
  • travel writing in fiction
  • voyage