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Interviews | June 19, 2009

Dave: IMG Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text



jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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    Border Songs

    Jim Lynch

The Accidental Tourist

by Anne Tyler

The Accidental Tourist Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Meet Macon Leary — a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer who promises to turn his life around.

Review:

"Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one." Los Angeles Times

Review:

"Poignant...funny....Tyler has never been stronger." New York Times

Review:

"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

Synopsis:

“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

Product Details

ISBN:
9780345452009
Author:
Tyler, Anne
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Children
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Men
Subject:
Travel writing
Subject:
Baltimore
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Edition Description:
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Series Volume:
no. 6.
Publication Date:
April 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
8.22x5.56x.77 in. .64 lbs.

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