The story charts the marriage of a couple who are such opposites in character but who fall madly in love. As the marriage progresses with children and moving out to the suburbs inevitably the cracks appear between a couple who are so fundamentally different. A beautifully observed book.
July 2010 Guest Editor Louise Candlish on Anne Tyler...
Anne Tyler is the ultimate writer’s writer and I join her throng of admirers, but she is very hard to emulate. I think that’s partly because she is so unflinchingly spare in her structuring – you can see that in The Amateur Marriage. You get the impression she is that rare creature: a great novelist without a big ego.
| Primary Genre | Family Drama |
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From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel, spanning three generations, about a mismatched marriage - and its consequences. Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayers of later years, Anne Tyler captures the nuances of everyday life with telling precision and sly humour.
The Amateur Marriage features in the following genres: Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The Amateur Marriage is available in Paperback
The Amateur Marriage was written by Anne Tyler and published by Vintage
The Amateur Marriage has 306 pages
£8.99
