The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• “POIGNANT . . . FUNNY . . . THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST IS ONE OF HER BEST. . . . <TYLER> HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER.” – The New York Times 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. “BITTERSWEET . . . EVOCATIVE . . . It’s easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners . . . Tyler <is> a writer of great compassion.” – The Boston Globe “Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one.” – Los Angeles Times “A DELIGHT . . . A GRACEFUL COMIC NOVEL ABOUT GETTING THROUGH LIFE.” – The Wall Street Journal

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Anne Tyler: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• They were supposed to stay at the beach a week, but neither of them had the heart for it and they decided to come back early.