Anne Tyler has published seventeen novels over the past forty years and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986 for The Accidental Tourist and in 1989 the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons. Her fans see a modern-day Jane Austen and are addicted to her writing style and marvelous sense of humor. But most of all, they fall in love with the genuinely quirky characters Anne Tyler so skillfully evokes, and her ability to make you care about them as they face the small triumphs and tragedies of everyday life.
The Accidental Tourist is Anne Tyler’s best known and most loved novel. 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.
The Accidental Tourist was made into a highly regarded film directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis.
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