num_pages: 327
description: Breathing Lessons is the wonderfully moving and surprising story of Ira and Maggie Moran. She's impetuous, harum-scarum, easygoing; he's competent, patient, seemingly infallible. They've been married for 28 years. Now, as they drive from their home in Baltimore to the funeral of Maggie's best friend's husband, 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 a wife and husband can fall in love all over again, the way nothing really changes. Anne Tyler's funny, unpredictable and endearing characterizations make Breathing Lessons truly entertaining.
language: English
title: Breathing Lessons
titlecomplete: Breathing Lessons
genres: American, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Marriage, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 29285
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Knopf