Product Description

A man obsessed with routine finds his life is turned on its head when his wife abandons him, he loses his son, and has to contend with the arrival of Muriel, a dog-trainer. From the author of LADDER OF YEARS, SAINT MAYBE and DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #590795 in Books
• Published on: 1986-08-19
• Released on: 1986-08-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

From Library Journal
Scarred by grief after their 12-year-old son's senseless murder (he was shot by a holdup man in a Burger Bonanza), Macon and Sarah Leary are losing their marriage too. Macon is unable to cope when she leaves him, so he settles down ``safe among the people he'd started out with,'' moving back home with two divorced brothers and spinster sister Rose. Author of a series of guidebooks called ``Accidental Tourist'' for businessmen who hate to travel, Macon is Tyler's focus here, as she gently chronicles his journey from lonely self-absorption to an ``accidental'' new life with brassy Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow Bow Animal Hospital, who renews and claims his heart. Not a character, including Macon's dog Edward, is untouched by delightful eccentricity in this charming story, full of surprises and wisdom. All of Tyler's novels are wonderful; thisher tenthis the best yet. BOMC main selection. Janet Wiehe, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton Cty.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Winner of the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. 2 cassettes.

From the Back Cover
"A beautiful, incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating book... There's magic in it... comic scenes that explode with joy."-- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

"Brilliant...poignant [and] funny...One of her best." -- Larry McMurtry, The New York Times Book Review