by Anne Tyler · VINTAGE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099201410
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«Breathing Lessons» is Anne Tyler's literary novel, published by Vintage in paperback (336 pages, in English).
On a hot summer day, Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, travels with her husband Ira to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of her childhood friend's husband. The detours of the journey test her optimism and her urge to fix other people's lives, revealing the lights and shadows of marriage and the possibility of falling in love again.
The novel was originally published in 1988 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989; the Vintage paperback edition is from 1992.
For readers of contemporary fiction and book clubs interested in family 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.
