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Breathing is how some people stay alive : a collection of stories / Alison Gadsby.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.G3325 B74 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gadsby, Alison, author.
- Series:
- Essential prose series ; 244.
- Essential prose series ; 244
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loneliness--Fiction.
- Loneliness.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 213 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Chicago : Guernica Editions, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive blurs the lines between horror, catastrophic speculative fiction, and psychological realism in a collection that might best be described as weird fiction. These connected stories offer dark reconstructions of lives brimming with desperate loneliness. They allow us to bear witness to the life-altering love of sisters, brothers, mothers... the life-altering love that buoys them as they struggle to stay afloat in the wake of childhoods they merely survived."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The deal with Roger
- A better parent
- Everything was fine before Lisa got here
- The beginning of sadness
- Breathing is how some people stay alive
- Yesterday's gone
- Smell
- Bruises don't leave scars
- Once there was a world
- Twirling
- Swimming
- Between living and dying
- Jesus is drowning
- What's so funny?
- Irreplaceable
- I don't want to fall, but I do
- Payment for the ride
- All that I had
- The going rate for grief.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gadsby, Alison. Breathing is how some people stay alive.
- ISBN:
- 9781778490156
- 1778490158
- OCLC:
- 1513555268
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