Breathing Lessons by Tyler, Anne - 1988

New York: A.A.Knopf, 1988 "This is an uncorrected Proof" The story describes the joys and pains of the ordinary marriage of Ira and Maggie Moran as they travel from Baltimore to attend a funeral and back home again in one day. It also examines Maggie's attempts to reconcile her son and daughter-in-law. During the journey to the funeral, we learn how both Ira and Maggie have forgone their youthful dreams and feel they have settled for an "ordinary life." We experience how they exasperate each other -Maggie too talkative, too meddling; Ira too logical, uncommunicative, and too judgmental. A few detours during their 90-mile drive reveal Ira and Maggie's "incompatibilities, disappointments, unmet expectations - and lasting love" [Wiinner of Pulitzer Prize 1989]. ARC/Advance Reading Copy. Original Wraps. Very Good.