The Accidental Tourist A Novel

Poignant . . . funny . . . The Accidental Tourist is one of her best. . . . [Tyler] has never been stronger. The New York Times

Bittersweet . . . evocative . . . It s easy to forget this is the warm lull of fiction; you half-expect to run into her characters at the dry cleaners. . . . Tyler [is] a writer of great compassion. The Boston Globe

Tyler has given us an endlessly diverting book whose strength gathers gradually to become a genuinely thrilling one. Los Angeles Times

A delight . . . a graceful comic novel about getting through life. The Wall Street Journal

A rarely equaled richness and depth . . . Delicious humor . . . Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place. Newday

Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating . . . One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this." The Washington Post

Hilarious . . . and touching . . . Anne Tyler is a wise and perceptive writer with a warm understanding of human foibles. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Comic . . . Sweetly perverse . . . A novel animated by witty invention and lively personalities. Time

Anne Tyler [is] covering common ground with uncommon insight. . . . Convincingly real. People