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Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
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In the course of a day spent with her husband of 28 years, Maggie Moran reviews and reconsiders her married life. While the two of them drive 90 miles north of their home in Baltimore to attend the funeral of the husband of Maggie's best friend, Maggie wonders how her son Jesse's married life can be saved, and what is worth saving in her own marriage.
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9780425117743,
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Berkley Pub Group,
1994
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9780786299492,
Audio Cassette,
Thorndike Pr,
1994
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9780896218598,
Hardcover,
Thorndike Pr,
1989
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9780425163139,
Paperback,
Berkley Pub Group,
1998
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9780394572345,
Hardcover,
Random House Inc,
1988
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9780394573175,
Audio Cassette,
Random House,
1988
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9780345485595,
Paperback,
Ballantine Books,
2006
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9780896212497,
Paperback,
Thorndike Pr,
1989
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9780345485571,
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Ballantine Books,
2005
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Publisher Notes
During a ninety-mile drive to her best friend's husband's funeral, Maggie and her husband, Ira, recall and re-evaluate the details of their twenty-eight-year marriage.
Media Reviews
"With her extraordinary talents Anne Tyler can crush the heart with the hopelessness of life on one page and lift it with love and humor on the next. Now, in her eleventh novel, 'Breathing Lessons,' she explores in one Baltimore marriage the resilient spirit that rescues us from moments of despair."
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