Description
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
ISBN13: 9780061724732
ISBN10: 0061724734
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Sea Stories
- Fiction | Literary