The Amateur Marriage (Magill’s Literary Annual 2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1941-2001
- Setting: Baltimore
- Principal Characters: Michael Anton, Pauline Barclay Anton, Linnet (Lindy) Anton, George Anton, Karen Anton, Pagan Anton, Anna Grant Stuart
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Child rearing or parenting, Family or family life, Husbands, Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, Twentieth century, 1940’s, 1980’s, Fathers, Divorce, 1990’s, Baltimore, 2000’s, Maryland
Anne Tyler has been writing about dysfunctional marriages and families since her first novel, If Morning Ever Comes (1964). In The Amateur Marriage, her sixteenth novel, Tyler further interrogates the mechanisms—both external and internal—which bind and break marriages and families. Unlike her previous works, however, The Amateur Marriage suggests that historical events and moods can create situations that human psychology cannot always accurately interpret. This shifting of some responsibility for a character's actions toward a peripheral source marks a...
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