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In Breathing Lessons, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989, we meet the harum-scarum Maggie, married for 28 years to competent, infallible Ira. On a hot summer day they are driving to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, 90 miles from their home in Baltimore, to the funeral of a friend. During the course of that journey, with its several unexpected detours, Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage: the expectations and disappointments; the way children can create storms in a family; and the way that a wife and husband can fall in love all over again.
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Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
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- Released
- 1989
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- Title
- Breathing Lessons
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Anne Tyler
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 327
- ISBN10
- 0140116419
- ISBN13
- 9780140116410
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Family, Contemporary Fiction, USA, Relationships, American Literature, Memories, Marriage, Argument, Son, Pulitzer Prize
- First published
- 1988
- Original title
- Breathing Lessons
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- In Breathing Lessons, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989, we meet the harum-scarum Maggie, married for 28 years to competent, infallible Ira. On a hot summer day they are driving to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, 90 miles from their home in Baltimore, to the funeral of a friend. During the course of that journey, with its several unexpected detours, Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage: the expectations and disappointments; the way children can create storms in a family; and the way that a wife and husband can fall in love all over again.