Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£8.99
Author:
Anne Tyler
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099201410
£8.99
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EAN: 9780099201410
Published: 1 Mar 2007
Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, married to Ira and with two children. Her eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested one hot summer day.
Maggie and Ira drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of the husband of Serena, Maggie's childhood friend. During the course of the journey, with its several unexpected detours - into the lives of old friends and grown children - 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 that wife and husband can fall in love all over again; the way that everything - and nothing - changes.
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A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure to read
- The Times
Breathing Lessons is a work of art
- Guardian
Anne Tyler's characters are simultaneously funny and sad, heroic and pathetic and none more so than Maggie and Ira...you end up thinking you've known this family all your life
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Her writing style is superb...there is humour...the dialogue both external and internal is fantastic
- Savidge Reads
An arresting slice of Baltimore life
- Independent
Born in Minneapolis in 1941, Anne Tyler lives in Baltimore where her novels are set. She is the Pulitzer-prize winning author of Breathing Lessons and other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Saint Maybe, Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America and Noah's Compass. She has recently received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognises a lifetime's achievement in books.
