As Macon's life falls apart, he tries to tie it back together with routine and habit. But sometimes life just doesn't work like that.
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and many other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Saint Maybe, Ladder of Years, A Patchwork Planet, Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America and The Beginner's Goodbye. In 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English' and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognises a lifetime's achievement in books. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, Vinegar Girl, is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew.
Her masterpiece
*Daily Mail*
Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive
*Independent on Sunday*
Anne Tyler gets better with every book, and this one is a triumph –
funny, profound, sad and ultimately reassuring
*Sunday Telegraph*
Warmly entertaining and sharply organised against cuteness or
mush
*Guardian*
The Accidental Tourist is one of Anne Tyler’s best books
*New York Times*
A beautiful, incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating book… The
Accidental Tourist cuts so close to the bone that it leaves one
aching with pleasure and pain. Words fail me: one cannot reasonably
expect fiction to be much better than this
*Washington Post*
Everything this author writes is shot through with intelligent
insight, humour and humanity
*Daily Mail*
Her masterpiece * Daily Mail *
Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive * Independent on Sunday *
Anne Tyler gets better with every book, and this one is a triumph -
funny, profound, sad and ultimately reassuring * Sunday Telegraph
*
Warmly entertaining and sharply organised against cuteness or mush
* Guardian *
The Accidental Tourist is one of Anne Tyler's best books *
New York Times *
A beautiful, incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating book...
The Accidental Tourist cuts so close to the bone that it
leaves one aching with pleasure and pain. Words fail me: one cannot
reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this * Washington
Post *
Everything this author writes is shot through with intelligent
insight, humour and humanity * Daily Mail *
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