The Accidental Tourist A Novel

"POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . .THE ACCIDENTAL TOURISTIS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . [TYLER] HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER." 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 worldand thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life. "BITTERSWEET . . . EVOCATIVE . . . It'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." TheBoston Globe "Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one." Los Angeles Times "A DELIGHT . . . A GRACEFUL COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GETTING THROUGH LIFE." The Wall Street Journal From the Trade Paperback edition.

ANNE TYLER is the author of more than twenty novels. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.