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Breathing Lessons

The moving and joyous novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Three Days in June

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Breathing Lessons

Yazan: Anne Tyler
Seslendiren: Suzanne Toren
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Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, married to Ira and with two children. Her eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested one hot summer day.

Maggie and Ira drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of the husband of Serena, Maggie's childhood friend. During the course of the journey, with its several unexpected detours - into the lives of old friends and grown children - Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage: the expectations; the disappointments; the way children can create storms in a family; the way that wife and husband can fall in love all over again; the way that everything - and nothing - changes.

A classic novel from one of America's greatest living novelists, now available as an audiobook.

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A work of art
Her finest novel
A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure
Anne Tyler has a real gift for generating tender and amazing moments
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
A major achievement
Tyler has such warmth of spirit that almost any novel by her is an escapist pleasure. But this is her masterpiece - one day in the life of a fifty something couple as they journey to a funeral and have their lives laid out in front of us. The book won the Pulitzer and is as human and generous as they come (Stig Abell)
A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure to read
Breathing Lessons is a work of art
Anne Tyler's characters are simultaneously funny and sad, heroic and pathetic and none more so than Maggie and Ira...you end up thinking you've known this family all your life (John O'Farrell)
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I listened this book for our monthly book club and can honestly say it was very disappointing.
Maggie Moran had no redeeming qualities whatsoever, in fact there was not one person in this story I liked. It really was a major disappointment.

OMG ! What was the point....

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you might not always warm to Maggie and Ira but the events of a single day are told in a beautiful melodrama around family life. Both funny and infuriating at times, very little happens in this witty and charming insight into lives and personalities of the main characters.
brilliant writing and excellent narration

well crafted story , thoroughly enjoyable

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A well written journal of a couple of days in the long marriage of Ira and Maggie. The only problem is Maggie, one of the most annoying characters I’ve come across . I just wanted to scream ‘for God’s sake, get a grip’ - I had to force myself to persevere and could easily have abandoned the book half a dozen times.

Well written but difficult to warm to

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A well crafted novel with a final paragraph which causes the entire book to shift into sharp focus.

A well crafted novel

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Anne Tyler once again with her eagle eyed accuracy weaves a lifetime of stories throughout a day in the life of Maggie and Ira. Perfect characters - if not all likeable. Just like real life. When people ask ‘what is the point?’ That is just it. Sometimes there is no destination or point of arrival. It’s the journey along the way where all the memories are established and developed. The beauty here is in the resonance of the familiar and lack of drama or theatre

Beautiful characterisation - as ever

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