by Anne Tyler · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467214796
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«El matrimonio amateur» is the contemporary novel by Anne Tyler, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (384 pages, in Spanish).
The plot follows Pauline and Michael from when they meet in Baltimore during World War II, as they form a family with three children and face the tensions of marriage. With humour and sensitivity, Anne Tyler portrays an American family across several generations and decades of social change.
The original title is The Amateur Marriage (2004). This edition includes an illustrated dust jacket and the work was nominated for the Orange Prize.
For reading groups and readers interested in family, marriage and American fiction.
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.
