by Anne Tyler · Alfred a Knopf Inc · tapa dura · ISBN 9781400042074
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«The Amateur Marriage» is Anne Tyler's contemporary fiction novel, published by Alfred A. Knopf in hardback (306 pages, in English).
After meeting in a Baltimore grocery store during World War II, Michael and Pauline marry on impulse. Their opposing characters make the marriage a constant mismatch, and the novel follows the couple and their family over decades, amid social changes and small domestic battles.
It is Anne Tyler's sixteenth novel, published in 2004, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize.
A read for book clubs and for those seeking literary fiction about marriage, family, and everyday life.
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.
