Breathing Lessons
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good with remainder mark and foxing to the top edge. Minor soiling and wear; clean and crisp interior. Previous ownership stamp to front free endpaper. With jacket. A sound reading copy if not a collectible one. 327 pages. 6” x 8.5”.
A third printing of Anne Tyler’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel and Time magazine’s Book of the Year, Breathing Lessons (1988) follows middle-aged Maggie and Ira Moran on a long drive to a funeral.
Michiko Kakutani writes of their journey in The New York Times, “it becomes a metaphor both for their 28-year marital odyssey, and for the halting, circuitous journey all of us make through life—away from and back to our family roots, out of innocence into sorrow, wisdom and loss.”
Very Good / Very Good. Item #8
ISBN: 9780394572345
Price: $25.00