by Anne Tyler · Ballantine Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780965809092
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«The Amateur Marriage» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by Ballantine Books in paperback, in English.
Pauline and Michael marry impulsively during World War II. The novel follows the vicissitudes of their marriage over the years: trials, changes and complications, with domestic life and family relationships as a backdrop.
The novel was published in 2004 and was longlisted for the Orange Prize in the fiction category.
For readers of literary fiction interested in novels about marriage, domestic life and family relationships.
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.
