Review of an amateur marriage by ann tyler

Description:They're experienced by the reader as jolts, even bolts, of time and change. By a failure of the literary transubstantiation normally so reliable a mechanism in this writer's work, the characters remain ordinary, if not positively tiresome. Cassians, a mainly Eastern European conclave in Baltimore, year-old Michael meets Pauline and is immediately smitten. A lesser novelist would take moral sides, using this story to make a didactic point. Michael and Pauline got married at a time when the common wisdom, expressed by Pauline's mother, was that "marriages were like fruit trees Elaine Showalter's books include Inventing Herself Picador. Michael and Pauline fly to her rescue, but she has entered a retreat run by a guru named Becoming.

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