Breathing Lessons
The author of the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Accidental Tourist pens another delightful tale of an ordinary couple. The Morans are just average — she is scatterbrained and he whistles. Just when they think they've learned all there is to know about each other, they find out how...
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The author of the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Accidental Tourist pens another delightful tale of an ordinary couple. The Morans are just average — she is scatterbrained and he whistles. Just when they think they've learned all there is to know about each other, they find out how extraordinary they really are.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394572345 (0394572343)
Publish date: August 12th 1988
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Pages no: 327
Edition language: English
I wasn't very taken with the novel at first. Maggie and her bickering with her husband, Ira, exasperated me--as it did her husband. But his affection for her was evident by the end of the first chapter, and by then I felt a similar emotion for this middle-aged American Emma. Like Austen's Emma, Magg...
Reread by audiobook. Kept.Okay, first of all I've always thought of this couple as elderly. I'M OLDER THAN THEY ARE! That's just sick!I went through a time in the 1980s/1990s where I read everything Anne Tyler and kept up with her books. I swear I read this book but there were scenes I didn't re...
I can't believe this won such a prestigious award. The writing was good, but the whole plot was kind of boring. Nothing really happened, except life went on as it always had.
This is a wonderful, quiet but powerful book, with very rich characterization and an interesting structure. It uses a condensed "day-in-the-life" timeline divided into three parts. The first part is the drive to the funeral that Maggie and Ira attend told from Maggie's POV; the second part the dri...
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