Breathing Lessons
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780701133917 (0701133910)
Publish date: January 15th 1989
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Pages no: 336
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...
Buddy read with Kim :-).
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...
13 years ago
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