About the Author
A highly regarded author of short stories and novels, Anne Tyler is known for her fiction exploring the vicissitudes of human existence in late 20th-century […]
Month: January 2009
Overview and Setting
Overview Breathing Lessons is Tyler’s eleventh book. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in fiction as well as Time magazine’s Book of the Year, it […]
Themes and Characters
The central theme of Tyler’s novel is the dynamic of modern American families. Within that theme, Tyler focuses on the fact that an individual’s initial […]
Literary Qualities
Breathing Lessons utilizes a third-person omniscient narrative. The book is divided into three parts: the first and third sections reflect Maggie’s interpretation of events, while […]
Social Sensitivity
In general, the subject of Tyler’s novel is family and marital relationships. Very little social and political background is provided in the story, although it […]
Ideas and Topics for Papers
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION What is the role of game playing in the novel? How do games demonstrate the motif of breathing lessons or support Tyler’s […]
Related Titles and Adaptations
Tyler continues to explore American lives and Characters in her 1998 novel, A Patchwork Planet. In this work, Tyler relates the story of Barnaby Gaitlan, […]
About the Author
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He spent much of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a town located on […]