Breathing Lessons (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Anne Tyler

Breathing Lessons (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Anne Tyler

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Evoking Jane Austen, Emma Straub, and other masters of the literary marriage, Breathing Lessons celebrates the small miracles and magic of truly knowing someone.

Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets and reckonings--and is oftern regarded as Tyler's seminal work. Maggie and Ira Moran are on a road trip from Baltimore, Maryland to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of a friend. Along the way, they reflect on the state of their marriage, its trials and its triumphs--through their quarrels, their routines, and their ability to tolerate each other's faults with patience and affection. Where Maggie is quirky, lovable and mischievous, Ira is practical, methodical and mired in reason. What begins as a day trip becomes a revelatory and unexpected journey, as Ira and Maggie rediscover the strength of their bond and the joy of having somebody with whom to share the ride, bumps and all.

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

Anne Tyler grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, after being born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, and this is her twentieth. She is an American Academy of Arts and Letters member. She resides in the city of Baltimore, Maryland.

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ISBN 13	9780345485571
ISBN 10	0345485572
Title	Breathing Lessons (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Author	Anne Tyler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-11-01
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1989
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