The amateur marriage [a novel]
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 10:39:02. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Blair Brown. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 153077 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction Grandparent and child -- Fiction Runaway teenagers -- Fiction Marital conflict -- Fiction Married people -- Fiction Mate selection -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Domestic fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage and its consequences, spanning three generations. They seemed like the perfect couple, young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into his mother's grocery store, Michael was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervor, they are propelled into a hasty wedding. But they never should have married. Pauline, impulsive, impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, judgmental, proceeds deliberately. While other young marrieds, equally ignorant at the start, seemed to grow more seasoned, Pauline and Michael remain amateurs. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. Even when they find themselves, almost thirty years later, loving, instant parents to a little grandson named Pagan.