Insight Text Guides – The Accidental Tourist is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Anne Tyler’s novel contains detailed character and chapter analysis and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.
About the writer:
Maria Joseph, BA (Hons), CELTA, Dip Ed, PhD, has taught literature at the University of Adelaide and the Open University in Singapore. She specialises in Australian literature and contemporary women’s literary fiction. She has also taught English language and linguistics in Singapore and Japan. She is an award-winning short-story writer.
