The accidental tourist by Victor Gochi

“THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST”

“The accident tourist” is a novel written by Anne Tyler. She was born in Minneapolis in 1941. She has written nearly twenty novels.
The accidental tourist was published in 1985 and it won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Also this novel was filmed. For this reason, I can say this novel is well-known.

The novel takes place in Baltimore, It’s set in a urban country nearly the 1980’s.
The main character is Macon Leary, a kind man; he’s tall, and a gray-eye man, with a short fair hair and the kind of skin that easily burns. He tries to have a life without complications. He tries to have everything in order. He has a good organization. Another character is Sara, she is Macon’s wife, she’s a thin person, and she has a short hair. Her skin is pale. She has some troubles in her life because of her son’s death, Ethan Leary dead before the story began but he’s an important character in the story.
Edward is a dog, but he’s a central point of the story. He is small with short legs. He barks and jumps a lot. He’s an anxious dog.
Also appear in the story Rose Leary, Macon’s younger sister, and Charles and Porter, Macon’s older brothers. Julian Edge is the Macon’s boss. He is a young and a cheerful man. Muriel Pritchett is a god trainer, she has a long and black hair, her eyes era small, and her face is sharp and colorless. Her legs are like sticks. He is divorced and has a kid. His name is Alexander, hi has health problems. He is nine years old. He is small, white with a short thin hair and blue eyes. He wears glasses.
The novel tells the story about Macon who writes guidebooks for people who have to travel on business but don’t want to feel outside home.
He writes the accidental tourist and he shows in this book what kind of places to visit like restaurants, hotels, and what to wear in order to make them feel in home.
After Ethan died, Macon and his wife Sarah start to have problems and she wants to get a divorce. Macon stars his “single life”. One day he see Edward has behaviour problems. He has to travel and he can’t go with his dog. He take him to an animal hospital where meet Muriel. She starts to train Edward and start a relation with Macon too. A lot of things happen about his family like problems, a wedding between Rose and Julian.
Macon moves Muriel’s home and he begins a good relation with Alexander. He travels because his job. Muriel get jealous about Sarah and Macon is desperate for that reason. He travels to another country, Sarah’s starts to call him up. Macon miss her and when hi returns, he don’t go to Muriel’s house. He backed home with Sarah. Then, he has to travel to Paris. In the airplane, he discovers Muriel is there.
They go out together but he tells her, he wants stay with Sarah. He starts to feel bad, so Sarah arrived to Paris. Muriel saw her and she seemed very surprised.
In the end Sarah takes care of Macon, but he noticed he didn’t do anything by himself. He woke up on the bed. Sarah was surprised because Macon will return to Muriel. He realizes he must be with her and Alexander.

In my opinion I didn’t like me the final of the story because what I don’t learn until the end is why Macon decided to return to Muriel. I don’t understand that part and I was very confused.
What I liked best was the story in general because I think it has an uncommon story, it means I didn’t hear a story like that before. The context it was really nice and I enjoy reading it. The chapters have a god structure.
I would recommend this book to people in love because is a story about love. But I would recommend it to people who have problems with their couple in order to them notice what they have.
I discovered with this noel that it’s important to decide about your life but take care that anybody feels harm. I don’t like the Macon’s attitude because he made feel bad to Muriel and Sarah. The story has a good message: decide by yourself and make the things as you think they’re correct.


Victor Gochi