The Accidental Tourist
by Anne Tyler
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0762102500
- ISBN 13
- 9780762102501
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Pleasantville, New York: ImPress, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Unmarked. Half-title page has a small wrinkle. Spine straight and tight. Light wear to jacket at spine ends. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 360 pages. How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.
Synopsis
The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The novel was adapted into a 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000003304
- Title
- The Accidental Tourist
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0762102500
- ISBN 13
- 9780762102501
- Publisher
- ImPress
- Place of Publication
- Pleasantville, New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- fiction, adult, romance, contemporary, literary
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Erotica;
- Size
- 12mo
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