The Accidental Tourist
1985 novel by Anne Tyler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the novel. For the film adaptation, see The Accidental Tourist (film). For the hoax photograph, see tourist guy.
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 in 1985 and the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1986. The novel was adapted into a 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis, for which Davis won an Academy Award.
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Author | Anne Tyler |
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Cover artist | Fred Marcellino[1] |
Language | English |
Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | August 12, 1985 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 355 |
ISBN | 9780345452009 |
OCLC | 12432313 |
813/.54 19 | |
LC Class | PS3570.Y45 A64 1985 |
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