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It's a novel that runs deep and showcases her ability to make the everyday both entirely recognisable and extraordinary. Like all Tyler's novels, 'The Accidental Tourist' combines comedy and tragedy without veering into farce or sentimentality. Includes notes on the author, genre, structure & style, synopsis, summary. Mrs von Sydow handed me a copy of 'The Accidental Tourist' and I embarked on a lifelong love affair with the quietly stunning, quirky and oh-so humane writing of Anne Tyler. Cambridge Wizard Student Guide to The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler. By this, I meant books that combined the best qualities of literary and commercial fiction the way the classics do books where the writer's voice and view of the world delights and surprises, where the story and the characters seduce you along from page to page. After his wife leaves him, Macon cuts himself off from the rest of the world. We were sitting on the veranda while the slow sun set over the dark-blue North Sea and I was bemoaning the lack of "my kind of books". In The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler presents an intimate portrait of Macon Leary, a middle-aged man coming to terms with the tragic death of his son. UPDATED Activity Worksheets with a story summary & worksheets at Stages. A friend's mother recommended it to me back in the Eighties. 5 The Accidental Tourist, Level 5:: The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler. Asking a book lover to choose her book of a lifetime is a little like asking Casanova to pick his love of a lifetime but if I have to, that book must be 'The Accidental Tourist' by Anne Tyler.
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