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Discover a beautiful story about what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne Tyler

How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?

After the loss of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon neatly folds his anguish back into place and adapts the household on to more efficient lines. But with the arrival of Muriel, an eccentric and vulnerable dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, his attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.

**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

''Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing'' Rachel Joyce

''She knows all the secrets of the human heart'' Monica Ali


''A masterly author'' Sebastian Faulks

''I love Anne Tyler. I''ve read every single book she''s written'' Jacqueline Wilson



Trade Review
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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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 04/05/1995
      ISBN13: 9780099480013, 978-0099480013
      ISBN10: 0099480018

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Discover a beautiful story about what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne Tyler

      How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?

      After the loss of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon neatly folds his anguish back into place and adapts the household on to more efficient lines. But with the arrival of Muriel, an eccentric and vulnerable dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, his attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.

      **ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

      ''Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing'' Rachel Joyce

      ''She knows all the secrets of the human heart'' Monica Ali


      ''A masterly author'' Sebastian Faulks

      ''I love Anne Tyler. I''ve read every single book she''s written'' Jacqueline Wilson



      Trade Review
      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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