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Book Review of The Amateur Marriage

The Amateur Marriage
The Amateur Marriage
Author: Anne Tyler
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Powell's Book Review: "In this story of two good people who make each other miserable, Tyler eschews her stock of whimsical oddballs and instead brings her famed empathy to bear on strikingly realistic characters....In her deliberate, unadorned, butter-smooth prose, unwrapping a telling moment here and there, Tyler works through sixty years, time enough for rending events to become part of the fabric of life....[A]s always, the people she cares about are those who care profoundly and unshakably, no matter what happens, about others." Christina Schwarz, The Atlantic Monthly (read the entire Atlantic Monthly review)