The accidental tourist

Description:

Meet Macon Leary—a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new journey. It's called love—and it arrives in the unlikely shape of a fuzzy-haired dog-obedience trainer who promises to turn the Accidental Tourist into a happy traveler...

subjects: Death,  Psychological fiction,  Psychology,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Men,  Fiction,  Children in fiction,  National Book Critics Circle Award Winner,  Travel writing in fiction,  award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1985,  Travel writing,  Men in fiction,  Children,  award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction,  Large type books,  American fiction,  Fiction, psychological,  Baltimore (md.), fiction,  High interest-low vocabulary books,  Readers,  Hommes,  Romans, nouvelles,  Psychologie,  Enfants,  Mort,  Voyage,  Art d'écrire

Places: Baltimore (Md.),  Maryland,  Baltimore