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How to Breathe Underwater

How to Breathe Underwater - Paperback

by Julie Orringer
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Availability:In StockContributor:Julie OrringerSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:2005-04-12Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400034369ISBN-10:1400034361UPC:9781400034369Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Coming of AgeSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SC9ZS2RJ01
A New York Times notable book and winner of The Northern California Book Award for Best Short Fiction, these nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this debut. In "When She is Old and I Am Famous" a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In "Note to Sixth-Grade Self" a band of popular girls exert their social power over an awkward outcast. In "Isabel Fish" fourteen-year-old Maddy learns to scuba dive in order to mend her family after a terrible accident. Alive with the victories, humiliations, and tragedies of youth, How to Breathe Underwater illuminates this powerful territory with striking grace and intelligence.

"These stories are without exception clear-eyed, compassionate and deeply moving.... Even her most bitter characters have a gift, the sharp wit of envy. This, Orringer's first book, is breathtakingly good, truly felt and beautifully delivered."--The Guardian
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400034369ISBN-10:1400034361UPC:9781400034369Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Coming of AgeSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SC9ZS2RJ01
JULIE ORRINGER is the New York Times best-selling author of two award-winning books: The Invisible Bridge, a novel, and How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories. Her latest book is The Flight Portfolio. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the MacDowell Colony, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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