04766cam a2200865 4500 463263522 TxAuBib 20201218120000.0 ||||||s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781400042982 1400042984 B000FC0ZLW Amazon 0acbbd7e-b571-41f5-8812-b76166a298fb OverDrive (Reserve ID) 181382 181382 181382 50996 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tyler, Anne. The Amateur Marriage [Libby] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004. family. relationships. Friendship. literary fiction. motherhood. romance. parenting. Fiction. mothers. novels. marriage. love. Death. families. love story. mystery. Divorce. grief. feminism. infidelity. Chick Lit. literature. American Literature. fiction books. mens gift. birthday gift for mom. book club books. relationship books. grandparents gifts. best friend gift. mom gift. gifts for friends. friend gifts. gifts for nurses. books fiction. mimi gifts. 40th birthday gifts for women. uncle gifts. get well soon gifts for women. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4270kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage—and its consequences, spanning three generations.<br /> They seemed like the perfect couple—young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into his mother's grocery store, Michael was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervor, they are propelled into a hasty wedding. But they never should have married.<br /> Pauline, impulsive, impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, judgmental, proceeds deliberately. While other young marrieds, equally ignorant at the start, seemed to grow more seasoned, Pauline and Michael remain amateurs. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. Even when they find themselves, almost thirty years later, loving, instant parents to a little grandson named Pagan, whom they rescue from Haight-Ashbury, they still cannot bridge their deep-rooted differences. Flighty Pauline clings to the notion that the rifts can always be patched. To the unyielding Michael, they become unbearable.<br /> 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 fully into the complex entanglements of family life in this wise, embracing, and deeply perceptive novel. Media Type: eBook. Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee - Best Book. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-18 22:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/0AC/BBD/7E/AmateurMarriageANovel9781400042982.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0ACBBD7E-B571-41F5-8812-B76166A298FB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/0AC/BBD/7E/AmateurMarriageANovel9781400042982.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0ACBBD7E-B571-41F5-8812-B76166A298FB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/0AC/BBD/7E/AmateurMarriageANovel9781400042982.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0ACBBD7E-B571-41F5-8812-B76166A298FB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)