Breathing Lessons (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The mid-1980's
- Setting: Deer Lick and Cartwheel, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland
- Principal Characters: Maggie Moran, Ira Moran, Serena Palermo Gill, Jesse Moran, Fiona Moran, Leroy Moran
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Marriage, 1980’s, Baltimore
- Locales: Pennsylvania, Baltimore, MD
In her tenth novel, The Accidental Tourist (1985), Anne Tyler depicted the dissolution of a twenty-year marriage following the violent death of a couple's son. In Breathing Lessons, her eleventh book, she presents the reverse, the duration of a marriage for twenty-eight years despite the countless grievances and compromises that come with any enduring relationship. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Breathing Lessons is the story of Maggie and Ira Moran's long-standing love and tolerance for each other. Told primarily through flashbacks as the two journey to...
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