Ballantine Reader's Circle The Accidental Tourist, (Paperback)

from ctpress

"I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them." A story about a couple who separate a year after their only son was murdered. They are of course both grieving but in their own way and they drift apart. The main ...

from kambrogi

It has been years since I first read this book, and I actually enjoyed it more the second time around. I like everything Anne Tyler has written, and was once again struck by her nearly perfect writing: the descriptions of characters that are so spot-on and yet so unique. As in most of her books, ...

from Miro

Like his brothers and sister, Macon Leary slides into a rigid and stultifying (comfortable?) familiarity, but finally wakes up and makes a decision between his difficult estranged wife and an unbalanced woman with a young son. I didn't find it very credible, but it's perceptive and the characters...

from CatheOlson

This is one of my favorite books . . . I just love the characters and the book is just so well done.It's about this man, very stuck in his ways who writes the Accidental Tourist series--travel books for businessmen who hate to travel. After his son dies, his wife leaves him and he moves in with h...

from mhgatti

For those of you who have not read the novel or seen the movie yet, Tourist is about Macon Leary, a Baltimore travel writer who hates to travel. He moves through life in a way that avoids any variations to his comfortable routine. This, along with the trauma from the killing of his young son, cau...