by Anne Tyler · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099477679
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«The Amateur Marriage» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by Vintage in paperback (440 pages, in English).
Michael and Pauline meet in Baltimore during the Second World War and marry impulsively; the novel follows their marriage over the years, amid the family shop, the social changes of the sixties and domestic life, and explores how an unequal union leaves its mark on three generations.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2004. The action takes place in Baltimore over several decades.
Will appeal to those seeking literary fiction about marriage and family life, with Anne Tyler's characteristic style.
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.
