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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Anne Tyler |
| Narrator: |
Blair Brown |
| Fiction Genre: |
Family & Relationships |
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Professional Reviews
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Pritchard, William H., New York Times Book Review: "THE AMATEUR MARRIAGE is...Tyler's most ambitious work, ranging over 60 years of American experience....Tyler's grip on her characters and their pathos is...mischievous, but its focus is steady and unerring. The book also touches levels deeper than mischief...." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Hardcover - Prebinding
Publisher: Bt Bound (October 01, 2004)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1"(d), 0.8 lbs.
ISBN: 9781417663873 |
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They seemed like the perfect couple: young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into his mother's grocery store, Michael was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervor, they are propelled into a hasty wedding. But they never should have married.<P>Pauline, impulsive, impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, judgmental, proceeds deliberately. While other young marrieds, equally ignorant at the start, seemed to grow more seasoned, Pauline and Michael remain amateurs. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. Even when they find themselves, almost thirty years later, loving, instant parents to a little grandson named Pagan, whom they rescue from Haight-Ashbury, they still cannot bridge their deep-rooted differences. Flighty Pauline clings to the notion that the rifts can always be patched. To the unyielding Michael, they become un |
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