by Anne Tyler · Alfred a Knopf Inc · tapa dura · ISBN 9780394572345
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«Breathing Lessons» is a contemporary novel by Anne Tyler, published by Alfred A. Knopf in hardback (345 pages, in English).
Maggie and Ira Moran, married for twenty-eight years, drive ninety miles to attend the funeral of her best friend's husband. Along the way, they revisit their life together: she, optimistic and meddling, dreams of reuniting their son with his ex-wife; he, practical and somewhat resigned, reviews shared expectations and disappointments.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989, originally published in 1988 and categorized as contemporary fiction and romance.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in portraits of marriage and everyday life.
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.
