by Anne Tyler · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582416352
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«The Accidental Tourist» is the graded reader by Anne Tyler, published by Pearson Education in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Macon Leary writes travel guides although he hates travelling. After the death of his son, his wife leaves him and his dog, Edward, starts causing problems. The arrival of Muriel, an unusual dog trainer, shakes up his routine and pushes him to reconnect with life. A story about grief, love, marriage and dogs.
Adaptation by Susan Maingay published in the Penguin Readers series, level 3; the original novel by Anne Tyler was published in 1985.
For intermediate-level English students and young readers who are starting to read in this language.
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.
