- Fiction, Married people, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Maryland
While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage.
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Contemplative, intimate, classical in form and earnest.
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- Borders/Recorded Books, Inc., Fischer, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- Spanish, French, English, German
- ISBN
- 9781407054339
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First sentence
“MAGGIE AND IRA MORAN HAD TO go to a funeral in Deer Lick, Pennsylvania.”
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