Breathing Lessons

Tyler, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099201410 ISBN 13: 9780099201410

Publisher: Vintage, 1992

Meet Maggie Moran. Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, with its several unexpected detours into the lives of old friends and grown children, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested..., OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD`She's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor `One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty`She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan `Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve`My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby `A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks `Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good' John Updike`I love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner `Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty

Review:

"A work of art" (Guardian)

"Her finest novel" (Irish Times)

"A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure" (The Times)

"Anne Tyler has a real gift for generating tender and amazing moments" (Independent)

"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" (Guardian, Best 100 Novels of all time)

From the Publisher:

One of five Anne Tyler novels reissued in stunning new jackets