Breathing Lessons
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For the 1996 short film, see Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien.
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 1st edition cover |
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| Author(s) | Anne Tyler |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Knopf |
| Publication date | 1988 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 0394572343 |
| OCLC Number | 17917014 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 19 |
| LC Classification | PS3570.Y45 B74 1988 |
Breathing Lessons is a 1988 novel by American author Anne Tyler. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was also Time Magazine's book of the year.[1]
It describes joys and pains of the ordinary marriage of Ira and Maggie Moran as they travel from Baltimore to a funeral and home in one day, and of Maggie's attempts to reconcile her son and daughter-in-law.
Breathing Lessons is Tyler's eleventh book.
[edit] Adaptations
- Film:
- A Television movie based on the book was made in 1994 for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was directed by John Erman, and starred James Garner and Joanne Woodward as Ira and Maggie Moran.
- Stage:
- Kevin McKeon adapted the novel into a stage play. He also directed its premier run at the Book-It Repertory Theatre, at Seattle Center House Theatre, Seattle Center, in Seattle, Washington, from June 6-June 29, 2003.
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