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The Accidental Tourist (film) - Wikipedia  The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 American drama film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis. It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan and scored by John Williams. The film's screenplay was adapted by Kasdan and Frank Galati from the novel of the same name by Anne Tyler. ... Macon Leary (William Hurt) is a Baltimore writer of travel guides for reluctant...
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The Accidental Tourist - The New York Times  Sep 8, 1985 ... Byline: By Larry McMurty; Larry McMurty's most recent novel is ''Lonesome Dove'' Lead: THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST By Anne Tyler. ... is a winged armchair; their assumption is that all travel is involntary, and they attempt ... in due course, his girlfriend, Muriel Pritchett - a dog trainer of singular appearance...
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The Accidental Tourist - Welcome to NoveList Select. - Ebsco  Click Anne Tyler to see a full list of her novels in NoveList. ... In his desperation, Macon calls upon Muriel Pritchett, dog trainer and general jack of all trades, not...
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Review/Film - Going Nowhere, Slowly - NYTimes.com  Dec 23, 1988 ... LEAD: Anne Tyler's fiction is as revealing of the tiny intimacies that ... A key revelation of character, in one of Miss Tyler's novels, is more apt to ... who has written a series of travel guides for businessmen who wish ... Also on the scene is a dog trainer named Muriel Pritchett, a pushy, ... Register now for free.
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Jeo 19 - 4 Flashcards | Quizlet  In this Anne Tyler novel, a glum travel writer is revived by free-spirited dog trainer Muriel Pritchett? The Accidental Tourist.
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The Truth About 'Travels With Charley' | Bill Steigerwald  Sep 23, 2015 ... Early Friday morning John Steinbeck and his poodle Charley leave his ... In the summer of 1960 Steinbeck wrote a letter to an aide to Adlai Stevenson describing ... In Travels With Charley he doesn't say much about his visit or how ..... With Charley" and used it as a map for his own cross-country road trip...
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Breathing Lessons - The New York Times  Date: September 11, 1988, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 1, Column 1; ... Lead: LEAD: BREATHING LESSONS By Anne Tyler 327 pp. ... because it isn't really the drifters (staples of American fiction since Melville's .... Tull in ''Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant''' (1982), she is tryng to make a difference,...
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The Adventures and Loves of Anne Shirley of Avonlea - Dating  From the time it was first published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables, written by ... and schools for years to come, along with each of it's sequels about the Anne girl and ... Montgomery obtained a teaching certificate in 1893 after attending Prince of ... that when she goes to return to Avonlea to marry Gilbert, even the Pringles,...
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A Letter and a Dream: The Literary Friendship of Ellen Glasglow and ...  In Ellen Glasgow's first published fiction, a story entitled. A Woman ... requires her to move away from her home in rural Virginia. Patricia's ... and move to the wilderness of Florida, setting herself up as .... Prize-winning novel, The Yearling, is a fictionalized account .... department store once they relocate to Queenborough, a.
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Anne Tyler - Wikipedia  Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story ... Because of her style and subject matter, she has been compared to John Updike, ... Tyler also describes reading Little Women 22 times as a child. ... Eudora Welty remains one of her favorite writers, and The Wide Net and Other...
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The Incredible Journey - Penguin Readers  Sheila Burnford was born in Scotland in 1918 and ... animals are Luath, a young Labrador, Tao, a Siamese cat, ... strange or unfriendly people along the way. ... reunited with the two dogs. ... Chapters 23: The next day, Longridge sets off on his trip. He says goodbye to the .... guess which titles should be at the start of which.
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Book Of A Lifetime: The Accidental Tourist, By Anne Tyler | The ...  Aug 18, 2011 ... Asking a book lover to choose her book of a lifetime is a little like asking ... the quietly stunning, quirky and oh-so humane writing of Anne Tyler. ... Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates travel and the entire purpose of his ... But when he falls and breaks his legs, he and Edward the dog are forced to move...
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The Amateur Marriage: A Novel: Anne Tyler: 9780345470614 ...  The Amateur Marriage: A Novel Paperback  October 26, 2004. by .... She gets just right the tricks Michael and Pauline play on themselves in order to stay together: "How many times," Pauline ..... Published 2 months ago by Amazon Customer.
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Anne Tyler: a life's work | Books | The Guardian  Apr 13, 2012 ... Before the publication of her 19th novel, Anne Tyler hadn't given a face-to-face ... often passing the same card over and over until she feels she can make something of it. .... in an essay called "Still Just Writing": "Women writers who have raised ... Her favourite is the pathologically forgiving Ezra (who makes...
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Free Flashcards about AUTHORS - StudyStack  THIS AUTHOR'S WORK AS A PRIVATE DETECTIVE WITH PINKERTON ...... GREGORY IS THE SETTING FOR THIS 1965 ARTHUR HAILEY BESTSELLER, HOTEL ..... IN 1985 LILLIAN HELLMAN RE-ISSUED 5 OF HIS DETECTIVE NOVELS...
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The Accidental Tourist Characters | GradeSaver  He is the main character of the book and is a writer of travel guides. ... She is the wife of Macon Leary and is an educated and slightly 'upper class' woman who ... The Accidental Tourist study guide contains a biography of Anne Tyler, literature...
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Anne Tyler: a life's work | Books | The Guardian  Apr 13, 2012 ... Before the publication of her 19th novel, Anne Tyler hadn't given a ... 1967, and she has become so synonymous with the city that they run Tyler tourist trips. .... The title Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant captures the dichotomy on ... Novel status  adjectives such as "homespun", "heartwarming" and "cosy"...
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Enameled Lady - The New Yorker  Apr 20, 2009 ... She was not afraid of thunder, nor of anything elseexcept unreturned ... Her first and only novel, Ship of Fools, published in 1962, when she was ... recent edition Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings, ... Anne Porter, won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1966.
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Unhappily Ever After - The New York Times  Jan 11, 2004 ... William H Pritchard reviews book The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler; drawing (M) ... Unhappily Ever After. By WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD JAN. 11, 2004 ... IN 1832, when Fanny Trollope published her travel book ''Domestic Manners ... When she calls a second time, Pauline realizes that Michael has silently...
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The Accidental Tourist - Wikipedia  The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction ... Macon slowly finds that he loves "the surprise of her, and also the surprise of himself...
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Anne Tyler - Author, Editor - Biography.com  Sep 2, 2016 ... Anne Tyler is an American novelist who wrote The Accidental Tourist ... Tyler entered Duke University at 16, where her instructors included the ... Harboring some ambition to become an artist, she instead studied Russian literature at ... on their way to a funeral, which earned the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.