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Breathing Lessons
Breathing Lessons
paperback
Published:
17 September, 1992
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Description
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...
**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**
'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce
'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali
'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks
'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson
Prizes
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1989,Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1989
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099201410 |
| ISBN10 | 0099201410 |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 238 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 196 x 21 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
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 *
A major achievement * Irish Times *
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 *
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Author's Bio
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, A Spool of Blue Thread, Redhead by the Side of the Road and Three Days in June.
She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'.