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 award-winning author of two New York Times best-selling books: The Invisible Bridge, a novel, and How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of short tales. The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the MacDowell Colony, and Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study have all awarded her fellowships. Her husband and children live in Brooklyn with her. Julie Orringer's website is www.julieorringer.com.

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ISBN 13	9781400034369
ISBN 10	1400034361
Title	How to Breathe Underwater
Author	Julie Orringer
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-04-12
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.