Name: Breathing Lessons
ISBN: 9780345485571

"Breathing Lessons" is the wonderfully moving and surprising story of Ira and Maggie Moran. She's impetuous, harum-scarum, easygoing; he's competent, patient, seemingly infallible. They've been married for 28 years. Now, as they drive from their home in Baltimore to the funeral of Maggie's best friend's husband, Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage - the expectations, the disappointments, the way children can create storms in a family, the way a wife and husband can fall in love all over again, the way nothing really changes. Anne Tyler's funny, unpredictable and endearing characterizations make "Breathing Lessons" truly entertaining.

Book Details

Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2005
Pages: 336
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.30in - 0.77in - 0.57lb
EAN: 9780345485571
Categories: • Literary• Family Life - General• Psychological

About the Author

ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Praise for this book

"Superb fiction: It shows us how to live."--Newsday

"A wonderful novel, glowing with the insight and compassion of an artist's touch." --The Boston Globe

"Displays her extraordinary gifts in supreme harmony: exquisite narrative clarity, faultless comic timing, and the Tyler trademark of happy-sad characters inspiring a mid-American domestic drama that somehow slips the surly bonds of the quotidian to become timeless and universal." --"The 100 Best Novels," The Guardian