The Amateur Marriage: A Novel
by Anne Tyler
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Author: Anne TylerEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-01-31
ISBN: 0345472454
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- Anne Tyler has taken the edgy, imperfect, exasperating moments of marriage and woven a tapestry of life and its changes in the course of a fifty-year relationship.
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Book Review: A Good Read
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the story of a couple. It starts the moment they meet. It's right at the brink of the United States' entrance into World War II, an electrifying time for young people. We follow this couple through many shifts. Are they mismatched or perfectly matched, perfectly complementary opposites? The quiet. methodical, caring husband, Michael, and his wife, compassionate, emotional, quick to anger, quick to forgive (if not forget) Pauline. And their children, the good ones who are often taken for granted and the problematic daughter who is the center of her parents thought-- especially when she is gone.
The decades change as the couple ages. Do they mature? Perhaps they just get more set in their separate personalities, anticipating each other's reactions. Is that love?
This novel goes through decades of changes. There is enough happening within the family to create a meandering plot, with idiosyncratic family members who seem so real to me that I mourn their losses. This book gently examines love as a metamorphosis from that first moment when Michael sees Pauline in her red coat, to something unrecognizable. I wonder how many husbands (mine?) could identify with Michael and how many wives (!) with Pauline? And, in the end, isn't love the sometimes tumultuous coming together of opposites?
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