- Death, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Open Library Staff Picks
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...
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Classical in form, spare, contemporary and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 355
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Frankfurt am Main : Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl.,, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- Spanish, und, Italian, German
- ISBN
- 9780140083408
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“They were supposed to stay at the beach a week, but neither of them had the heart for it and they decided to come back early.”
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