
Breathing Lessons
#217 of 8,085 books · #107 in Fiction
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1989). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.
Meet Maggie Moran. Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, with its several unexpected detours into the lives of old friends and grown children, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested.
- Publisher
- Random House
- ISBN-13
- 9781446426777
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for FictionWonMajor(1989)
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1988)
Other awarded books from Anne Tyler
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (2012)0 wins · 20 score
- The Accidental Tourist (1995)1 win · 20 score
- A Spool of Blue Thread (2015)0 wins · 8 score
- Morgan's Passing (2012)0 wins · 8 score
- Digging to America (1998)0 wins · 4 score
- Ladder of Years (1993)0 wins · 4 score
- Redhead by the Side of the Road (2020)0 wins · 2 score
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