The amateur marriage

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My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby, Independent on Sunday. From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel, spanning three generations, about a mismatched marriage - and its consequences.-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 counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayers of later years, Anne Tyler captures the nuances of everyday life with telling precision and sly humour.

subjects: Baltimore (md.), fiction,  Married people, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fiction,  Runaway teenagers,  Married people,  Grandparent and child,  Mate selection,  Marital conflict,  Grandparent and child -- Fiction,  Large type books,  Matrimonio,  Novela,  Familia,  Personas casadas,  Fictional Works

Places: Baltimore (Md.),  Maryland,  Baltimore,  United States