Book #30855

Breathing Lessons - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Anne Tyler
Book #30855 Breathing Lessons - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Anne Tyler.

Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
ISBN: 0394572343

First Trade edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in Very Good+ dust-jacket. Back of book jacket has indentations where someone has written and it has"bled" through to jacket. No physical writing on jacket.

The tale of an ordinary couple, Maggie and Ira Moran, who have been incompatibly married for 28 years. All the action takes place on one summer day as Maggie and Ira drive from Baltimore to Pennsylvania to a funeral. An accidental detour and a chance encounter help them rediscover the love that binds them together in spite of it all. Basis for the 1994 television movie starring James Garner and Joanne Woodward; 8vo; 327 pages; FSA.

Price: $40.00

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Author Bio

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) worked as a librarian and bibliographer, before moving to Maryland and becoming a novelist. Breathing Lessons, her eleventh novel, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Her tenth novel, The Accidental Tourist was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985, and became a 1988 major motion picture, starring Geena Davis and William Hurt. She currently reside in Baltimore, Maryland.

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