Breathing Lessons

by Anne Tyler (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.25

  Maggie Moran has an inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's problems: where happiness does not exist she creates it. Maggie's quest for love and happiness is the central theme of this novel which humorously traces events in the lives of ordinary people. Anne Tyler is also the author of The Accidental Tourist , Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant , Morgan's Passing and Earthly Possessions .

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.25

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $11.62

  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.