C O N D I T I O N : Good. N O T E S: Paperback. C O N T E N T S : No precis available. ||| || |

C O N D I T I O N : Good. N O T E S: Paperback. C O N T E N T S : No precis available. ||| || |

C O N D I T I O N : Good. An acceptable reading copy only. N O T E S: Paperback. C O N T E N T S : Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage is not so much a novel as a really long argument. Michael is a good boy from a Polish neighbourhood in Baltmore; Pauline is a harum-scarum, bright-cheeked girl who blows into Michael's family's grocery store at the outset of World War II. She appears with a bloodied brow, supported by a gaggle of girlfriends. Michael patches her up, and neither of them are ever the same. Well, not the same as they were before, but pretty much the same as everyone else. After the war, they live over the shop with Michael's mother until they've saved enough to move to the suburbs. There they remain with their three children, until the onset of the 60s, when their eldest daughter runs away to San Francisco. Their marriage survives for a while, finally crumbling in the 70s. If this all sounds a tad generic, Tyler's case isn't helped by the characteristics she's given the two spouses. Him: repressed, censorious, quiet. Her: voluble, emotional, romantic. Mars, meet Venus. What marks this couple, though, and what makes them come alive, is their bitter, unproductive, tooth-and-nail fighting. (Originally £6.99) 320pp. ||| || |

C O N D I T I O N : Good. An acceptable reading copy only. N O T E S: Paperback. C O N T E N T S : (Originally £7.99)336pp. ||| || |

C O N D I T I O N : Very Good. N O T E S: Paperback. C O N T E N T S : (Originally £5.50)368pp. ||| || |

C O N D I T I O N : Very Good. N O T E S: Paperback. C O N T E N T S : (Originally £14.45) ||| || |

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