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The Amateur Marriage

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099469599

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 256g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Amateur Marriage

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other.

The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counter-culture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayers of later years, we watch their lives unspool and see the consequences of their very mismatched marriage.

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  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099469599

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 256g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A brilliant writer…funny, tragic, wise

    Lynne Truss, Independent

  • Anne Tyler is a formidably skilful story-teller, with every narrative trick at her effortless command

    Daily Telegraph

  • Tyler's compelling, moving and often amusing tale is the story of any marriage - every page brings a smile of recognition to the reader

    Daily Mail

  • The meanings of this beautifully written novel reach far wider than Baltimore. I shed a tear as I finished the Antons' story

    Evening Standard

  • Tyler is an exquisite chronicler of the everyday

    Observer

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About the Author

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance and Redhead by the Side of the Road. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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