Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories

Title: Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories
Author: Lydia Peelle
ISBN: 9780061724732
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Original
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"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.