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Breathing Lessons

By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
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Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, 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 - Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage: The expectations; the disappointments; the way children can create storms in a family; the way that wife and husband can fall in love all over again; the way that everything - and nothing - changes.

A classic novel from one of America's greatest living novelists, now available as an audiobook.

©1998 Anne Tyler (P)2014 Audible, Inc.; Published in the UK by Random House Audiobooks Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Marriage
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It struggled to get started and when it did it left me so frustrated with all the characters. They all made such stupid mistakes and left all the communication to a sad lady who tried so hard to make things work but was so I'll equipt. It made me deflated at the end. I finished it because I wanted some happiness for her but the sweet moment at the end wasn't enough for me.

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I didn't warm to this story - I found the characters very irritating, particularly Maggie who was just an interfering woman, and old for her 48 years. Her husband Ira, also seemed to me to be a man in his 70's.

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