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Breathing Lessons (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Anne Tyler (Author), Kate Harper (Narrator)
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  • Audio Download
  • Listening Length: 10 hours and 35 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: AudioGO Ltd.
  • Audible Release Date: 1 July 2011
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005BEH5O4
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing 50, 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, we see all there is to know about a marriage: the expectations; the disappointments; the way children can create storms in a family; the way the wife and husband can fall in love all over again; the way that everything - and nothing - changes.

©1988 Anne Tyler; (P)2011 AudioGo Ltd
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Lukal8
Format:Paperback
This was actually the first of many Anne Tyler books I read, and oddly did not live up to my mild expectations. Despite the acute realism and sense of sentimental familiarity that comes with all her books, I just didn't enjoy the storyline and didn't especially warm to the central characters as I do with characters in her other books. Perhaps three stars is rather harsh since it is beautifully written with excellent style, and very readable, nevertheless relative to her other works I have to rate this as average.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
As Tyler so often does, the ordinary lives of her characters become extraordinary, and the reader immerses him/herself in the storyline.

A wonderful read, pleasurable yet simple, you follow the characters through as if you were with them, experiencing their lives.

The beauty of this book is the fact that it is so completely believable. I felt like the characters were long lost friends that I could relate to.

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Format:Paperback
This was the first Anne Tyler book I've read and I was exhilarated by it. It is a beautifully written book, full of insights into human relationships. Her witty writing and sharp observations make Tyler a dream to read. Top of my list of 'discovered authors' for '98. After you've read it, your only problem will be deciding which of your friends to pass it on to first!
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Superb characterisation and story-telling
I discovered the wonderful writing and extraordinary characters of Anne Tyler in Breathing Lessons. I am amazed at her insight into people and human relationships, her witty... Read more
Published 12 days ago by Elizabeth Perrat
Life, in all its uplifting mediocrity
After reading the perfectly depressing "Amateur Marriage" I re-opened this novel, which I had read nearly two decades ago. Read more
Published 12 months ago by rob crawford
Laugh out loud a lot but be prepared for tears too
I sat in bed last night rocking with laughter at my current "read". Sometimes I come across a scene, a description, a paragraph ... a sentence ... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Shirley Mitchell
Beautifully written but spoiled by an over-the-top character
This is my first Anne Tyler book, it was recommended by a friend but I was disappointed overall.

I thought it was beautifully written, and for the most part an acute... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Miss_Jelly
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Excellent novel- you may feel irritated by the main characters but you have to admit that they are real and that we all might have felt this- but not in such a compressed space of... Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2009 by Alison N. King
Anne Tyler's Turkey?
I love many of Anne Tyler's books,but this one, to me, was plain unreadable. I couldn't become remotely engaged in the story or care less about the characters and the writing had... Read more
Published on 17 May 2009 by oldhasbeen
And Breathe...
Anne Tyler won The Pulitzer Prize in 1989 and twenty years on you can still see why, her writing style is superb. Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2009 by Simon Savidge Reads
An Absolute Joy
This novel is an absolute joy - and I can see why it won a purlitzer prize. Beautifully crafted it brilliantly illustrates the way people are with each other - the way in which... Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2008 by A. Hope
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler's Breathing Lessons is a giant of a book, a giant because of the way in which it gently wraps you into its character's world and allows you to feel their lives being... Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2007 by Philip Spires
A day in the life...
A day in the life of Maggie - who is rather naïve and interfering (albeit for the right reasons) - and her husband of 25 years, Ira. Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2006 by maria1971
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