The Accidental Tourist (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Self-discovery, Traveling or travelers, Dogs, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Marriage, Alienation, Brothers and sisters, 1980’s, Divorce, Death or dying, Lifestyles, Loneliness, Life, philosophy of, Baltimore, Pets, Tourist trade
- Locales: Baltimore, MD
Set against the background of Baltimore and its environs, Tyler’s tenth novel in twice that many years opens a year after the senseless death of Macon’s son Ethan in a holdup and on the eve of Macon’s divorce from Sarah. Never temperamentally matched, Macon and Sarah have reacted differently to Ethan’s murder. Sarah, in despair over the world’s evil, has mistaken Macon’s aloofness for an absence of hurt, whereas in actuality, he simply cannot cope without muffling his feelings.
Macon, like the business travelers who buy the “Accidental Tourist” guidebooks that he...
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