Accidental Tourist, The

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>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. Then he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who upends Macon’s insular world—and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.<br/><br/>“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<br/><br/>“Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one.” —Los Angeles Times<br/><br/>“A delight… A graceful comic novel about getting through life.” —The Wall Street Journal<br/><br/>“A rarely equaled richness and depth…delicious humor… Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place.” —Newsday<br/><br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/><br/>Anne Tyler is the author of sixteen novels, including<br/>Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant,<br/>The Accidental Tourist, and her most recent,<br/>The Amateur Marriage. Her short stories have been published in the<br/>New Yorker and other magazines. Tyler’s new children’s book,<br/>Timothy Tugbottom Says No! illustrated by Mitra Modarressi, will be published in September 2005. She lives in Baltimore,Maryland.