num_pages: 306
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Amateur Marriage
titlecomplete: The Amateur Marriage
genres: Fiction, Family, Relationships, Marriage, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 17838
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Vintage