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    When the Whistle Blows

    Fran Cannon Slayton

Breathing Lessons

by Anne Tyler

Breathing Lessons Cover

ISBN13: 9780345485571
ISBN10: 0345485572
Condition: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

The triumphant Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller from the author of Ladder of Years and The Accidental Tourist..".More powerful and moving than anything she has done". — Los Angeles Times
"Tyler's best novel yet... With irresistibly funny passages you want to read out loud and poignant insights that illuminate the serious business of sharing lives in an unsettling world". — Publishers Weekly
"Anne Tyler's gentlest and most charming novel...an honest and lovely book". — Chicago Tribune
"A wonderful novel, glowing with the insight and compassion of an artist's touch". — Boston Globe
"She is at the top of her powers". — New York Times Book Review
"Superb fiction: it shows us how to live". — Newsday
"An occasion for laughter and tears!" — New York Post
"A remarkable book... Tyler centers on that most fascinating of human institutions, marriage, and holds it to the light". — Baltimore Sun

Review:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

“A wonderful novel, glowing with the insight and compassion of an artist’s touch.”

–The Boston Globe

“More powerful and moving than anything she has done.”

–Los Angeles Times

“Simple, wise, funny, touching, and real . . . Tyler is known for offbeat characters, and Maggie Moran is one of her most endearing.”

–The Christian Science Monitor

“An occasion for laughter and tears.”

–New York Post

“SUPERB FICTION: IT SHOWS US HOW TO LIVE.”

–Newsday

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goatgirl91, November 12, 2006 (view all comments by goatgirl91)
Tyler did an okay job on the story, but it doesn't hold the reader and have them want to keep reading (no cliffhangers or anything like that, and nothing I could say to spoil it). Breathing Lessons overall is rather tiresome, as the storyline switches contiuously from past to present.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780345485571
Author:
Tyler, Anne
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Married people
Subject:
Man-woman relationships
Publication Date:
November 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
339
Dimensions:
8.00x5.30x.77 in. .57 lbs.

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