The Accidental Tourist

The Accidental Tourist

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"For the famous picture, see Tourist guy".
name = The Accidental Tourist
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Anne Tyler
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Fiction
publisher = Knopf
release_date = August 12, 1985
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media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 355 pp
isbn = ISBN 039454689X
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:"This article is about the book. For the film adaptation, see The Accidental Tourist".

"The Accidental Tourist" is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The novel was adapted into an 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis.

Plot summary

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the plot revolves around Macon Leary, a writer of travel guides whose son has been killed in a shooting at a fast-food restaurant. He and his wife Sarah, separately lost in grief, find their marriage disintegrating until she eventually moves out. When he becomes incapacitated due to a fall, he returns to the family home to stay with his eccentric siblings - sister Rose and brothers Porter and Charles - whose odd habits include alphabetizing the groceries in the kitchen cabinets and ignoring the ringing telephone. When his publisher Julian comes to visit, he finds himself attracted to Rose. They eventually marry.

Macon hires Muriel Pritchett, a quirky young woman with a sickly son, to train his unruly dog, and soon finds himself drifting into a relationship with the two of them. When his wife becomes aware of the situation, she decides they should reconcile, forcing him to make a difficult decision about his future.

External links

* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,959827,00.html Innocent with an Explanation, "The Accidental Tourist" by Anne Tyler] Review by "Time Magazine"
* [http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/tyler.html An excerpt from the novel]


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