{"product_id":"reasons-for-and-advantages-of-breathing-stories-9780061724732","title":"Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eReasons for and Advantages of Breathing\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReasons for and Advantages of Breathing\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeelle, Lydia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eLydia Peelle is the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Midnight Cool\u003c\/em\u003e and the story collection \u003cem\u003eReasons For and Advantages of Breathing, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317901103378,"sku":"9780061724732","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b518131-6aa6-4b4d-a8d3-d4297f39a756.jpg?v=1727542493","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reasons-for-and-advantages-of-breathing-stories-9780061724732","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}