by Anne Tyler · VINTAGE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099469599
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«The Amateur Marriage» is Anne Tyler's romantic novel, published by Vintage in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Michael and Pauline marry impulsively during World War II, shortly after meeting in his family's grocery store in Baltimore. The novel follows their unequal marriage over the decades, from the 1940s to the 1970s, and shows how their differences affect their family and subsequent generations.
Novel by Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, published in 2004. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in the fiction category in 2004.
For readers of contemporary fiction and stories about family life, marriage and its complexities over time.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
