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    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "Breathing Lessons"
    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "Breathing Lessons"
    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "Breathing Lessons"
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    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "Breathing Lessons"

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    A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "Breathing Lessons," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 14, 2016
    ISBN9781535819930
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      A Study Guide for Anne Tyler's "Breathing Lessons" - Gale

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      Breathing Lessons

      Anne Tyler

      1988

      Introduction

      A highly regarded author of short stories and novels, Anne Tyler is known for her fiction that explores the vicissitudes of human existence in late twentieth-century America. Tyler's readers readily identify with her complex characters and see their own experiences mirrored in her fiction. She often makes her readers laugh out loud, but she also makes them think—about life, loss, family, death, and all aspects of the human condition.

      Breathing Lessons is Tyler's eleventh book. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for fiction as well as Time magazine's Book of the Year, it is the story of the run-of-the-mill marriage of Ira and Maggie Moran. The story explores the joys and tribulations of marriage, as Maggie and Ira travel from Baltimore to a funeral and home in one day.

      Author Biography

      On October, 25, 1941, Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her parents were members of the Society of Friends and liberal activists, and the family lived in a series of Quaker communes across the Midwest and South of the United States. Anne read voraciously as a child and began write stories at the age of seven. When she was eleven, the family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where she attended public school for the first time. The alienation she experienced at that time became a recurring theme in her writing.

      Tyler attended Duke University on academic scholarship. During her time there, she studied creative writing and Russian. Although she wrote simply for something to do, she received the Anne Flexner award for creative writing twice. Her short stories were published throughout her college years. At nineteen, Tyler graduated from Duke after three years, with a B.A. in

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