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Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested...

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A work of art * Guardian *
Her finest novel * Irish Times *
A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure * The Times *
Anne Tyler has a real gift for generating tender and amazing moments * Independent *
Displays her extraordinary gifts in supreme harmony: exquisite narrative clarity, faultless comic timing, and the Tyler trademark of happy-sad characters inspiring a mid-American domestic drama that somehow slips the surly bonds of the quotidian to become timeless and universal * Guardian, Best 100 Novels of all time *

Breathing Lessons

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 17 September 1992
      ISBN-13 9780099201410
      978-0099201410
      ISBN-10 0099201410
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by Anne Tyler

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested...

      Trade Review
      A work of art * Guardian *
      Her finest novel * Irish Times *
      A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure * The Times *
      Anne Tyler has a real gift for generating tender and amazing moments * Independent *
      Displays her extraordinary gifts in supreme harmony: exquisite narrative clarity, faultless comic timing, and the Tyler trademark of happy-sad characters inspiring a mid-American domestic drama that somehow slips the surly bonds of the quotidian to become timeless and universal * Guardian, Best 100 Novels of all time *

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