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Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

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Author Biography

Name: Anne Tyler
Birth Date: October 25, 1941
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Anne Tyler
914 words, approx. 3 pages
Anne Tyler (born 1941) is considered one of America's most important living writers. Her works evince familiarity with an extended literary tradition, with influences ranging from Emerson and Thoreau to Faulkner and Welty. Anne Tyler was born in Minneapo...
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Biography of Anne Tyler
11717 words, approx. 39.1 pages
"The real heroes to me in my books," Anne Tyler told interviewer Marguerite Michaels, "are first the ones who manage to endure and second the ones who somehow are able to grant other people the privacy of the space around them and yet still produce some...
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Biography of Anne Tyler
9749 words, approx. 32.5 pages
"The real heroes to me in my books," Anne Tyler told Marguerite Michaels, "are first the ones who manage to endure and second the ones who somehow are able to grant other people the privacy of the space around them and yet still produce some warmth." Tyl...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Breathing Lessons Information
140 words, approx. 1 pages
Breathing Lessons is a 1988 novel by American author Anne Tyler. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989. It describes joys and pains of the ordinary marriage of Ira and Maggie...


News and Journals
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Breathing lessons
08/23/2005: 1,140 words, approx. 4 pages
JULIE DEARDORFF, CHICAGO TRIBUNE The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-23-2005 Breathing lessons -- Deeper respiration can be healing and life-enhancing By JULIE DEARDORFF, CHICAGO TRIBUNE Date: 08-23-2005, Tuesday Section: HEALTH Edtion: All Editions Cathy Harvey gets up at 5 nearly every...
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National Review
Breathing Lessons.
12/30/1988: 1,196 words, approx. 4 pages
Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler (Knopf, 327 pp., $18.95) THOUGH AMERICA'S artist class has drawn many of its subjects and much of its financial support from America's middle class, our painters, sculptors, novelists, and poets have never quite learned to like that...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Gene Koppel
5,843 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Koppel discusses the game playing in Tyler's Breathing Lessons and the assertion that a balance between game playing and responsibility is necessary to live successfully.


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Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

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