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The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Anne Tyler
Paperback : 352 pages
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�??�?�¢??The New York Times
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is ...
Introduction
Ã???Ã??Ã?¢??POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.Ã???Ã??Ã?¢?Ã???Ã??Ã?Â
�??�?�¢??The New York Times
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon�??�?�¢??s insular world�??�?�¢??and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.
Ã???Ã??Ã?¢??BITTERSWEET . . . EVOCATIVE . . . ItÃ???Ã??Ã?¢??s easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners . . . Tyler [is] a writer of great compassion.Ã???Ã??Ã?¢?Ã???Ã??Ã?Â
�??�?�¢??The Boston Globe
Ã???Ã??Ã?¢??Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one.Ã???Ã??Ã?¢?Ã???Ã??Ã?Â
�??�?�¢??Los Angeles Times
Ã???Ã??Ã?¢??A DELIGHT . . . A GRACEFUL COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GETTING THROUGH LIFE.Ã???Ã??Ã?¢?Ã???Ã??Ã?Â
�??�?�¢??The Wall Street Journal
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