by Anne Tyler · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330310703
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«Breathing Lessons» is a contemporary fiction novel by Anne Tyler, published by Pan Books in paperback (336 pages, in English).
The novel recounts a married couple's journey to the funeral of a very close friend. Amid conversations and flashbacks, shared memories surface and a portrait of life together emerges, with its routines, silences and affections, as well as family relationships and the bonds that endure over the years.
Breathing Lessons was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989.
A novel recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and literary narrative, especially for those who enjoy stories of everyday life and couple relationships.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
