The Amateur Marriage
by Tyler, Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0701177349
- ISBN 13
- 9780701177348
- Seller
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, London, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 306 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. The dust jacket is price clipped but is in very good condition otherwise.. Dust Jacket price-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. 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. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayered apparel of later years, Anne Tyler captures the evocative nuances of everyday life during these decades with such telling precision that every page brings smiles of recognition. Throughout, as each of the competing voices bears witness, we are drawn ever more deeply into the complex entanglements of family life in this marvellous, multifaceted novel - one of Anne Tyler's finest. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; United States; 1940s; ISBN: 0701177349. ISBN/EAN: 9780701177348. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4743. . 9780701177348
Synopsis
The Amateur Marriage, published in 2004, is American author Anne Tyler's sixteenth novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4743
- Title
- The Amateur Marriage
- Author
- Tyler, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701177349
- ISBN 13
- 9780701177348
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- BZDB137 fiction, second world war, america, baltimore, Fiction; United States; 1940s; ISBN: 0701177349 EAN: 9780701177348 Tyler, Anne The Amateur Marriage
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