Author: Anne Tyler
Translator: Seung-nam Min
Publisher: Sigongsa
452 pages | 188*128mm
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About This Book
From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a
mismatched marriage?and its consequences, spanning three generations.
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.
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.
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.
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