Breathing Lessons - Softcover

Tyler, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 042511774X ISBN 13: 9780425117743

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

"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.

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Review

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A wonderful novel, glowing with the insight and compassion of an artist s touch.
The Boston Globe
More powerful and moving than anything she has done.
Los Angeles Times
Simple, wise, funny, touching, and real . . . Tyler is known for offbeat characters, and Maggie Moran is one of her most endearing.
The Christian Science Monitor
An occasion for laughter and tears.
New York Post
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
Superb fiction: It shows us how to live. Newsday
Simple, wise, funny, touching, and real . . . Tyler is known for offbeat characters, and Maggie Moran is one of her most endearing. The Christian Science Monitor
An occasion for laughter and tears. New York Post
More powerful and moving than anything [Tyler] has done. Los Angeles Times"

-A wonderful novel, glowing with the insight and compassion of an artist's touch.---The Boston Globe
-Superb fiction: It shows us how to live.---Newsday
-Simple, wise, funny, touching, and real . . . Tyler is known for offbeat characters, and Maggie Moran is one of her most endearing.---The Christian Science Monitor
-An occasion for laughter and tears.---New York Post
-More powerful and moving than anything [Tyler] has done.---Los Angeles Times

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

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

"Simple, wise, funny, touching, and real . . . Tyler is known for offbeat characters, and Maggie Moran is one of her most endearing."--The Christian Science Monitor

"An occasion for laughter and tears."--New York Post

"More powerful and moving than anything [Tyler] has done."--Los Angeles Times

From the Publisher

One of five Anne Tyler novels reissued in stunning new jackets

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 042511774X
• ISBN 13: 9780425117743
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352