Breathing Lessons

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Anne Tyler

"Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 20 novels, the best known of which are Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her “brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail,” and her “rigorous and artful style” and “astute and open language.” While many of her characters have been described as quirky or eccentric, she has managed to make them seem real through skillfully fleshing out their inner lives in great depth. Her subject in all her novels has been the American family and marriage: the boredom and exasperating irritants endured by partners, children, siblings, parents; the desire for freedom pulling against the tethers of attachments and conflicted love; the evolution over time of familial love and sense of duty. Tyler celebrates unremarkable Americans and the ordinary details of their everyday lives. Because of her style and subject matter, she has been compared to John Updike, to Jane Austen, and to Eudora Welty, among others.

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pT NE TO 77777 'À very good novel from a brilliant writer.… Anne Tyler’s compelling domestic landscape is littered with the defritus of squabbles and selfishness, sacrifice and misunderstanding, yet it never quite loses an optimism under the surface and never fails in its humour’ EVENING STANDARD tn | Even the funeral of her oldest friend's husband cannot threaten the eternal optimism of Maggie Moran. Now nearing fifty, the time of the thickening waist and the diet forever ignored, her inexhaustible passion tor sorting out other people's lives remains. For tra, Maggie s own husband of 28 years, the arrangements are less _ than perfect. To arrive on time they will have to start at eight, and for ‚ this reason alone he is grumpy. He is not an early morning kind - of man. So it is that one hot summer's day they travel to the funeral in Deer Lick. And in the course of that journey an extraordinary account of two very different people unfolds. With this absorbing and superbly narrated novel, Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage. The hopes, the -___disappointments, the storms — and how a wife and husband can fall ‘in love all over again… ‘Breathing Lessons is a work of art… all her hundred novelist’s feet are firmly on the ground and she's distinctly going places THE GUARDIAN ‘Anne Tyler has a real gift for generating tender and amazing moments’ THE INDEPENDENT lj Three previous novels by Anne Tyler, EARTHLY POSSESSIONS, SEARCHING FOR CALEB and CELESTIAL NAVIGATION are also available in Pan Books.

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    Boek met een hele aparte sfeer. In het begin kon ik er niet doorkomen, maar later werd het goed.

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    Zo zitten de meeste relaties in elkaar denk ik: ergernis, liefde, humor, verdriet, hoop en verkeerde verwachtingen.
    Geeft een aardig beeld van Amerika in de 70-er jaren.

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    Anne Tyler op haar best, een boek om keer op keer te lezen, verveelt nooit.
    Maggie verovert je hart..

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