The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist is a novel by Anne Tyler that won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book was made into a movie in 1988.
The Novel
The plot revolves around a travel writer whose son has been killed in a senseless shooting. He and his wife, separately lost in grief, find their marriage beginning to crumble, until she eventually moves out. When he hires an eccentric young woman to train his unruly dog, he finds himself drifting into a relationship with her, then has to decide if he should reconcile with his wife when she returns. It won the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
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1985 - National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
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| ► | The Novel |
| ► | The Film |
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