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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R4 對婚姻不切實際的幻想、失望、齣軌、看不起丈夫卻沒有決心離開（孩子是一大藉口，她關心自己勝過孩子），並無新意，卻是普通婚姻的寫照。一半棄
评分R4 對婚姻不切實際的幻想、失望、齣軌、看不起丈夫卻沒有決心離開（孩子是一大藉口，她關心自己勝過孩子），並無新意，卻是普通婚姻的寫照。一半棄
评分索然無味的婚姻，當它結束時，你還是會經曆失落，錯過，悔恨，悵然，自由以及空虛。這是個將就瞭三十年的故事，兒孫都不算好。什麼富貴滿堂，不過是吉利話罷瞭，你可彆把它當成一生追求啊。
评分R4 對婚姻不切實際的幻想、失望、齣軌、看不起丈夫卻沒有決心離開（孩子是一大藉口，她關心自己勝過孩子），並無新意，卻是普通婚姻的寫照。一半棄
评分R4 對婚姻不切實際的幻想、失望、齣軌、看不起丈夫卻沒有決心離開（孩子是一大藉口，她關心自己勝過孩子），並無新意，卻是普通婚姻的寫照。一半棄
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