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Breathing lessons

While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage.

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  • "Breathing lessons"
  • "Breathing lessons"@it
  • "Breathing lessons"@ja

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  • "During a ninety-mile drive to her best friend's husband's funeral, Maggie and her husband, Ira, recall and revaluate the details of their twenty-eight-year marriage."
  • "While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage."@en
  • "While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage."
  • "During the course of the journey, with its several unexpected detours - into the lives of old friends and grown children - the author shows us there is to know about a marriage: the expectations; the disappointments; the way children can create storms in a family; the way the wife and husband can fall in love all over again; and more."@en
  • "When a short road trip turns into a crazy adventure, Ira and Maggie Moran have a chance to review their lives, renew their love, and reaffirm a marriage that has room enough for realists and dreamers."@en
  • "When a short road trip turns into a crazy adventure, Ira and Maggie Moran have a chance to review their lives, renew their love, and reaffirm a marriage that has room enough for realists and dreamers."
  • "The story of Ira and Maggie Moran, very different people, who have been married 28 years, who learn some important things about themselves while on a trip to a funeral."
  • "Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years-and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other's eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son's broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical, a man "who should have married Ann Landers. "And what begins as a day trip to a funeral becomes an adventure in the unexpected. As Maggie and Ira navigate the riotous twists and turns, they intersect with an assorted cast of eccentrics-and rediscover the magic of the road called life and the joy of having somebody next to you to share the ride . . . bumps and all."@en
  • "Ira and Maggie Moran reveal all the complexities of their 28 years of marriage as they drive from Baltimore to attend the funeral of Maggie's best friend's husband."
  • "Maggie Moran is an eternal optimist, always trying to sort out other people's problems. She's sure she can get her son Jesse's marriage back together again, even if she has to exaggerate and tell a few white lies. The story begins as Maggie and her long-suffering husband, Ira, travel to a funeral, and on the way home they detour to Jesse's estranged wife's house."@en
  • "A charming tale of an extraordinary day in the lives of two ordinary people. What begins as a two-hour road trip to a neighboring town turns into an all-day adventure for Ira and Maggie Moran."@en
  • "BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye. Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years-and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other' s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son's broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical, a man "who should have married Ann Landers. "And what begins as a day trip to a funeral becomes an adventure in the unexpected. As Maggie and Ira navigate the riotous twists and turns, they intersect with an assorted cast of eccentrics-and rediscover the magic of the road called life and the joy of having somebody next to you to share the ride . . . bumps and all."
  • "During a ninety-mile drive to her best friend's husband's funeral, Maggie and her husband, Ira, recall and reevaluate the details of their twenty-eight-year marriage."@en
  • "The story of a couple who rediscover themselves on the course of a long journey."@en

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  • "Large type books"
  • "Adult fiction in German language"
  • "Downloadable e-Books"
  • "Authors' autographs (Provenance)"
  • "Translations"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Kvindeskildringer"@da
  • "Modern fiction"@en

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  • "生命課程"
  • "Lições de vida"
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  • "Åndedrætsøvelser"@da
  • "Åndedrætsøvelser"
  • "Burījingu ressun"@ja
  • "Burījingu ressun"
  • "Lecons De Conduite"
  • "Atemübungen Roman"
  • "Lezioni di respiro"
  • "Lezioni di respiro"@it
  • "Lekcje oddychania"@pl
  • "Lekcje oddychania"
  • "Vježbe disanja"
  • "שיעורי נשימה"
  • "Burījingu resun"
  • "Djupandning"@sv
  • "Djupandning"
  • "Breathing lessons"@en
  • "Breathing lessons"
  • "Breathing lessons : a novel"@en
  • "Breathing lessons : a novel"
  • "Hengitysharjoituksia"@fi
  • "Hengitys-harjoituksia"
  • "Sheng ming ke cheng = breathing lessons"
  • "Durus al-tanaffus"
  • "Leçons de conduite roman"
  • "Sheng ming ke cheng"
  • "Exercícios de respiraçâo"
  • "Ademlessen"
  • "ブリージング・レッスン"
  • "Breathing Lessons"
  • "Breathing Lesson"
  • "Djupandning : [roman]"@sv
  • "Breathing lessons : [a novel]"
  • "Leçons de conduite"
  • "Breathing lessons a novel"
  • "Atemubungen : Roman"
  • "Pusteøvelser"
  • "Atemübungen"
  • "Atemübungen : Roman"
  • "Desmōtes tou parelthontos"
  • "Lezioni di respiro : romanzo"
  • "Lezioni di respiro : romanzo"@it
  • "Ejercicios respiratorios"@es
  • "Ejercicios respiratorios"
  • "Shi'ure neshimah"
  • "Lec̜ons de conduite : roman"
  • "Breathing lessons [braille]"

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