Breathing Lessons.

Tyler, Anne

Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1988

About this Item

Signed limited first edition of this Pulitzer prize-winning novel, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece and interior decorations by Lane Smith specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. In fine condition. Anne Tyler has published twenty-four novels and earned multiple awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her eleventh novel and Pulitzer Prize-winner 'Breathing Lessons,' set in her adoptive home of Baltimore, follows a day in the life of the married Maggie and Ira Moran, an ordinary couple encountering their first time as empty nesters. What began as an exploration into the disasters of family life and marriage has become so iconic that it cannot possibly be separated from its setting. "Baltimore belongs to Tyler in the same way Asheville belongs to Thomas Wolfe, Chicago to James T. Farrell . . . (and) Albany to William Kennedy" (Jonathan Yardley).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Breathing Lessons.
• Publisher: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
• Publication Date: 1988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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