Amateur Marriage

Informationen zum Autor Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons , The Accidental Tourist , Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant , Ladder of Years , Back When We Were Grown-ups , Digging to America , A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Klappentext A multi-layered novel spanning three generations from this hugely talented author, her first in three years. A superb evocation of America at the start of World War II. "A brilliant writer of emotionally sophisticated novels, funny, tragic, wise" Lynne Truss, "Independent" Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Tyler
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.09.2004
• EAN: 9780099469599
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946959-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: ANNE TYLER; ANNE TYLER
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; San Francisco, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, Baltimore, FICTION / Family Life / General, 20th Century, Family life fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)