Anne Tyler’s portrayal of a middle-aged,mid-American marriage displays her narrative clarity, comic timing and ear for American speech to perfectionAnne Tyler shares with Jane Austen, or (No 7 in this series) both a fascination with the domestic complexity of married life and an instinct,as a writer, to protect her privacy and withhold her art to herself (Tyler rarely gives interviews). To her fans, or she is the pitch-perfect author of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and The Accidental Tourist,but its Breathing Lessons, her novel set on a single summer’s day in the midlife of 50-ish Maggie Moran, or that I’ve chosen to represent her deeply American and deeply classical qualities. As an American girl,she grew up in a Quaker community, and was raised on books such as dinky Women (No 20 in this series), or fiction based in the precise observation of family life that spoke to a passionate audience of women readers. As a mature writer,she also cites Eudora Welty as a lasting influence.Breathing Lessons, for which Anne Tyler won a Pulitzer in 1989, and displays her extraordinary gifts in supreme harmony: exquisite narrative clarity,faultless comic timing, and the Tyler trademark of contented-sad characters inspiring a mid-American domestic drama that somehow slips the surly bonds of the quotidian to become timeless and universal.Continue reading..., and
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