Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories

"Lydia Peelle has given us a collection of stories so artfully constructed and deeply imagined they read...
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Author: Lydia Peelle
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Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories by Peelle, Lydia

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories

$39.60

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories

$39.60
Author: Lydia Peelle
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"Lydia Peelle has given us a collection of stories so artfully constructed and deeply imagined they read like classics. It marks the beginning of what will surely be a long and beautiful career." --Ann Patchett

In Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing, Lydia Peelle brings together eight brilliant stories--two of which won Pushcart Prizes and one of which won an O. Henry Prize--that peer straight into the human heart. In startling and original prose, she examines lives derailed by the loss of a vital connection to the land and to the natural world of which they are a part.

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing conveys an almost Faulknerian ache for the pre-modern South, for a landscape and a way of life lost to the ravages of money and technology.



Author: Lydia Peelle
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.44w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780061724732

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 21
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 158780 / Reason to Breathe


Award: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award - Honorable Mention


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2009 pg. 37
Publishers Weekly 06/22/2009 pg. 33
New York Times Book Review 08/02/2009 pg. 6
New York Times Book Review 08/09/2009 pg. 18

About the Author
Peelle, Lydia: -

Lydia Peelle is the author of the novel The Midnight Cool and the story collection Reasons For and Advantages of Breathing, which received an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She received her MFA from the University of Virginia and has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Ucross, Yaddo, and Ragdale. Peelle is a recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry Prize, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honor, and a Whiting Award, as well as the Anahid Award for Emerging Armenian-American writers. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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