How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

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, compaassionate 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

Julie Orringer is the author of the award-winning short-story collection How to Breathe Underwater, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Her novel, The Invisible Bridge, was a finalist for the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction. She is the winner of The Paris Review's Discovery Prize and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is researching a new novel.

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ISBN 13	9781400034369
ISBN 10	1400034361
Title	How to Breathe Underwater
Author	Julie Orringer
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-04-12
Number of pages	240
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