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    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist"
    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist"
    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist"
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    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist"

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    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535834896
    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist"

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      A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist" - Gale

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      The Accidental Tourist

      Anne Tyler

      1985

      Introduction

      When The Accidental Tourist was published in 1985, Anne Tyler was already a well-established and successful author. Her tenth novel soon became a best seller and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Most reviewers consider this to be her best work. The novel has also been made into a successful film starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. As in many of her previous works, The Accidental Tourist focuses on the complexities of family relationships. In this story, middle-aged travel writer Macon Leary finds himself alone and miserable after his son is murdered and his wife leaves him. As a result, he realizes that he is in danger of becoming a dried up kernel of a man that nothing real penetrates. During the course of the novel, however, Macon confronts his suffering and carves out a new life for himself with the help of an energetic and eccentric young woman and her son. Tyler's intermingling of comedy and tragedy results in a bittersweet tale of loss and recovery. Critics applaud the novel's lovingly drawn and compelling characters and Tyler's insight into the complex inner workings of the American family.

      Author Biography

      At fourteen, Tyler discovered a writer who would have a significant impact on her own literary career. While reading Eudora Welty's short story The Wide Net, Tyler noted that one of the characters reminded her of someone she knew.

      Previously, Tyler had questioned her desire to become a writer because she thought that to write well one needed to have extraordinary experiences; she thought that her life was too dull. Welty taught her that good literature can also be about ordinary people and

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