The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

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Monday, October 11 through Friday, October 29, 2004. Read by Jim Fleming.

They seemed like the perfect couple, but in fact they should never have married. Pauline & Michael were hastily wedded in the passion of the moment during the early days of World War II, and somehow never managed to make the marriage work. Their thirty-year marriage provides a fertile field for the masterful Baltimore novelist.

(Knopf; ISBN-10: 1400042070)

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