The Accidental Tourist
novel by Tyler
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discussed in biography
- In Anne Tyler
Her highly successful novel The Accidental Tourist (1985) examines the life of a recently divorced man who writes travel guides for businessmen. It was made into a film in 1988. That year Tyler also published Breathing Lessons, which explores a couple’s relationship as they drive to a funeral; it…
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film adaptation
- In Kathleen Turner
…an adaptation of Anne Tyler’s novel that also featured Hurt, and she later reunited with Douglas in the divorce comedy The War of the Roses (1989). Her subsequent films included V.I. Warshawski (1991), in which she played a private investigator; the comedy Serial Mom (1994); The Virgin Suicides (1999), the…
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