The amateur marriage
Tyler, Anne2015
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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 the Polish neighbourhood of Baltimore, he was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervour, they were hastily wed. But they never should have married. Pauline, impulsive and impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, and judgemental, proceeds deliberately. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. A 17-year-old daughter disappears, and some years later this fractious pair is forced to rescue her little boy, named Pagan, from drug-infested San Francisco, to take him home and raise him.
Main title:
The amateur marriage / Anne Tyler.
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Edition:
1st trade pbk. ed.
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2015, c2004.
Collation:
306 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2004.
Contents:
Common knowledgeDandelion clockThe anxiety committeeWhispering hopeHeidi's GrandfatherKilling the frog by degreesThe world won't endA cooler spot on the pillowLongtime childThe man who was a dessert.
ISBN:
9780099469599 (pbk)0701177357 (pbk)07011773490099469596 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
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BRN:
38364