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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 416 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 0425161617
Release Date: Jan 5, 1990
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Scarred by grief after their 12-year-old son's senseless murder (he was shot by a hold-up man in a Burger Bonanza), Macon and Sarah Leary are losing their marriage too. Macon is unable to cope when she leaves him, so he settles down 'safe among the people he'd started out with,' moving back home with two divorced brothers and spinster sister Rose. Author of a series of guidebooks called Accidental Tourist for businessmen who hate to travel, Macon is Tyler's focus here, as she . . . chronicles his journey from lonely self-absorption to an 'accidental' new life with brassy Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow Bow Animal Hospital. -- Library Journal
| | | | From The Publisher
“POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS 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 world–and 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.”
–The Boston 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
| | | | Annotation
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 adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer who promises to turn his life around.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
The best love story of our time
-- A reviewer, July 6, 1999
Also Recommended: Breathing Lessons Earthly Possessions The Homesick Restaurant
FABULOUS!
-- Paul Budlong, November 7, 2001
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good. —John Updike
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