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Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories - Paperback

by Lydia Peelle
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lydia PeelleSeries:P.S.Publish date:2009-08-01Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061724732ISBN-10:61724734UPC:9780061724732Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Sea Stories, LiteraryAward:2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Honorable Mention - First Fiction AwardSize:8.02 x 5.44 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCBXBGABKQ

"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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061724732ISBN-10:61724734UPC:9780061724732Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Sea Stories, LiteraryAward:2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Honorable Mention - First Fiction AwardSize:8.02 x 5.44 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCBXBGABKQ
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.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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🏆 2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Honorable Mention - First Fiction Award

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