The Accidental Tourist
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Fiction 1985
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. The Accidental Tourist is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style
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From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. The Accidental Tourist is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style
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Discover a beautiful story about what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne TylerHow 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.
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Autoren-Porträt von Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid.In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Anne Tyler
- 1995, 416 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 20,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0099480018
- ISBN-13: 9780099480013
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.05.1995
Sprache:
Englisch
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