Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories

"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/01/2009
ISBN: 9780061724732
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.44w x 0.56d
Award: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award - Honorable Mention

Review Citations: 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

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