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The Accidental Tourist

by Anne Tyler · 1985

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Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon's insular world-and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisromanceromanceMore like thisLess of thiswomen’s fictionwomen’s fictionMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of this
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relationshipsrelationshipsMore like thisLess of thisdogsdogsMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisBaltimoreBaltimoreMore like thisLess of thisMarylandMarylandMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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traveltravelMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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