by Anne Tyler · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099480013
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«The Accidental Tourist» is the contemporary novel by Anne Tyler, published by Vintage in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Travel guide writer Macon Leary hates travelling and clings to his routines. After the loss of his son and the departure of his wife, his orderly existence begins to crumble until he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer who brings him out of his shell. A bittersweet comedy about grief, loneliness and the difficulty of reconnecting.
Originally published in 1985, it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs who enjoy character-driven stories with a bittersweet tone.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
