- Published: 3 November 1992
- ISBN: 9780099201410
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $26.00
Breathing Lessons











- Published: 3 November 1992
- ISBN: 9780099201410
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $26.00
Anne Tyler's characters are simultaneously funny and sad, heroic and pathetic and none more so than Maggie and Ira...you end up thinking you've known this family all your life
John O'Farrell
A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure to read
The Times
Breathing Lessons is a work of art, kindling a whole world of feeling out of such trivia as remembered popular songs from the time of one's adolescence, presenting to the reader a series of plain perceptions which seem to touch a completeness beyond themselves
Guardian
An arresting slice of Baltimore life
Independent
Her writing style is superb...there is humour...the dialogue both external and internal is fantastic
Savidge Reads
Funny, poignant and reflective
Katie Allan, Easy Living
Displays her extraordinary gifts in supreme harmony: exquisite narrative clarity, faultless comic timing, and the Tyler trademark of happy-sad characters inspiring a mid-American domestic drama that somehow slips the surly bonds of the quotidian to becometimeless and universal
Robert McCrum, Guardian, Best 100 Novels of all time
Anne Tyler has a real gift for generating tender and amazing moments
Adam Mars-Jones, Independent
Her finest novel… A major achievement
Irish Times
A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure
The Times
A major achievement
Irish Times
Anne Tyler has a real gift for generating tender and amazing moments
Independent
Displays her extraordinary gifts in supreme harmony: exquisite narrative clarity, faultless comic timing, and the Tyler trademark of happy-sad characters inspiring a mid-American domestic drama that somehow slips the surly bonds of the quotidian to become timeless and universal
Guardian, Best 100 Novels of all time
A work of art
Guardian
Her finest novel
Irish Times
Tyler has such warmth of spirit that almost any novel by her is an escapist pleasure. But this is her masterpiece - one day in the life of a fifty something couple as they journey to a funeral and have their lives laid out in front of us. The book won the Pulitzer and is as human and generous as they come
Stig Abell, Sunday Times