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| Original Title: | Breathing Lessons |
| ISBN: | 0345485599 (ISBN13: 9780345485595) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.annetyler.com/books/breathing-lessons-tr |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1989) |
Anne Tyler
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 350 pages Rating: 3.66 | 23000 Users | 1430 Reviews
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| Title | : | Breathing Lessons |
| Author | : | Anne Tyler |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 2006 Mass Market edition (USA) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 350 pages |
| Published | : | September 26th 2006 by Ballantine Books (first published August 12th 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Novels. Adult Fiction. Literature. American |
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Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years–and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son’s broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical, a man “who should have married Ann Landers.”What begins as a day trip to a funeral becomes an adventure in the unexpected. As Maggie and Ira navigate the riotous twists and turns, they intersect with an assorted cast of eccentrics–and rediscover the magic of the road called life and the joy of having somebody next to you to share the ride . . . bumps and all.
--back cover
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Ratings: 3.66 From 23000 Users | 1430 ReviewsRate Of Books Breathing Lessons
My first Anne Tyler and so absolutely blank about her style. Well, I am totally loving her characterization and plot layout. You learn about the characters as the day progresses, and nothing seems to be like what you first thought it to be. There is a humor that pervades the story the same way certain thoughts or emotions tickle up tears. This is reality written the best way ever, very realistic and relatable. It sort of came to me at a right time to evaluate self, relationships and parenting.Did they really give her the Pulitzer for this thing?! How utterly appalling! This may qualify as the stupidest book I have ever read. I did not like even one of the characters. Not one! They were annoying and weak and petty. I really wanted to hurl Maggie from the highest bridge just to get her to SHUT UP! Dumb dumb dumb dumb story. Shouldn't have bothered to finish it, but I did. So...more fool me.
Dnf @ 24%I cannot get into this book. I don't understand how this won a Pulitzer...
An enjoyable enough story but honestly not my favorite of Anne Tyler's. Sometimes it's funny to me how the most popular or award-winning books from an author or the ones that end of resonating with me the least. Though to be fair most of this story is about a 28-year long marriage and a meddlesome older woman, and I just didn't really click with her as a character or care for her all that much. Generally, though, I do love Tyler's characters and despite her stories often being plotless, she is
Breathing Lessons is about a couple, Maggie and Ira, who has been married for 28 years. Their son, Jesse, a father of a toddler, is facing a divorce. Their teenage daughter, Daisy is about to enter college so their house is now an empty nest.Life is a journey and, for a spouse like me, marriage is that part of the journey where you are somebody paddling the boat with you. My daughter is also heading to college a couple of months from now. Although she will be still be staying with us, I know
We can essentially classify Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners into three categories: the epic ("Age of Innocence," "Gone with the Wind," "Grapes of Wrath," "Confederacy of Dunces," "Lonesome Dove," "Amazing Adventures with Kavalier and Clay," "Middlesex"), the deeply personal ("Rabbit Is Rich," "Rabbit at Rest," "American Pastoral, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," "Olive Kitteridge"), and the "personal epic" ("Beloved," "The Hours," "Interpreter of Maladies," "The Road," "A Visit from
From the book jacket: Everyone knows a couple like the Morans. Maggie, with her scatterbrained ways and her just slightly irritating but good-hearted attempts to make everything right for everyone.... And Ira, infinitely patient, who is addicted to solitaire and who whistles out popular tunes, the only barometer of his moods. Theyve learned all there is to know about each other ... two ordinary lives in a comfortably routine marriage. But on the road to a friends funeral, they make some
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