Look for Clock Dance, the charming new novel from Anne Tyler, available now. Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating.One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this. Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith.

A fresh and timeless tale of unexpected bliss, The Accidental Tourist showcases Tyler's talents for making characters-and their relationships-feel both real and magical. Despite Macon's best efforts to remain insulated, Muriel up-ends his solitary, systemized life, catapulting him into the center of a messy, beautiful love story he never imagined. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer too optimistic to let Macon disappear into himself. It had taken me that long to hold the sum of this extraordinary novel in my head to realize that this was a great and subtle piece of writing where every. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon’s insular worldand thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life. Immobilized by grief, Macon is becoming increasingly prickly and alone, anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. Travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of his routine. In this irresistible #1 New York Times best-selling novel, Anne Tyler explores the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one's life after unspeakable tragedy.

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