BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's _The Beginner's Goodbye._** ** 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 delicious
The accidental tourist: a novel
✍ Scribed by Anne Tyler; Jennifer Bassett
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2009;2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Edition
- First Vintage Books edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0345452003
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Product Description
Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors ...After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon's attempts to run his own life become increasingly desperate - and more and more odd. Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides for business people. Then his dog Edward starts to bite people, and he has to send for Muriel, the dog trainer. And day by day, Macon's life gets more and more complicated.
About the Author
Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President's Murderer.
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