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- ISBN-13
- 9781400034369
- Type
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781400034369
- Book Title
- How to Breathe Underwater
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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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
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400034361
ISBN-13
9781400034369
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43115211
Product Key Features
Book Title
How to Breathe Underwater
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3615
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"A major new talent. . . .How to Breathe Underwateris a dark and beautiful book." The New York Times Book Review "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 "Orringer's engaging wit, her eye for social detail, her ear for patterns of speech and thought, and her insights into human nature proclaim her a writer to be reckoned with." Los Angeles Times "Captivating. . . . Orringer limns the ordinary, terrifying time between childhood and maturity so skillfully." San Francisco Chronicle "Pure gems, rollicking along with scintillating prose and surety. Just when you think they will stopand lesser writers would stopthey keep going with inexorable momentum." Ploughshare "The harsh landscape in which Orringer's characters dwell corresponds to the fierce beauty of her writing. Even the grimmest of these stories conveys, along with anguish, a child's spark of mystery and wonder." The New York Times "Beautiful, so wise and vital. . . . It's impossible not to feel for the pained and alienated young women in Orringer's stories, and impossible not to be stunned and moved by their quests for redemption. More so than any debut author in recent years, Orringer proves that the kids are all right, even when they're not." The Austin Chronicle "Utterly authentic . . . the passage through childhood and puberty is strewn with dangers and roadblocks. But what [Orringer] does with those hazards in her stories is something altogether magical." The Seattle Times "Eloquent. . . . Orringer sifts the inexorable sparks of sexual awakening and unearths moments of brittle surprise and bitter triumph. . . . Haunting." Miami Herald "Unclouded by sentimentality . . . Orringer endows her situations and her charactersadults as well as childrenwith complexity and humor. . . . She writes with penetrating intelligence and remarkable self-possession." The Boston Globe "How to Breathe Underwateris unbelievably good: the humiliations and cruelties and passions of childhood, sparkling fresh prose, a writer with a big heart and an acute sense of the small things that loom large in our lives." Monica Ali,The Guardian "Absolutely magnificent. . . . In Orringer's world, we are forced to remember that time in our lives when we had to tolerate mystery and meaningless, because, to the child in each of us, the world is still a murkyand potentially magical place." Ms. Magazine "Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth about the fears, cruelties, and humiliations of childhood, but then does that rarest, and more difficult, thing: writes equally beautifully about the moments of victory and transcendence." George Saunders "Fair Warning: Once you start reading Julie Orringer's debut collection of short stories,How to Breathe Underwater,you may find yourself unable to stop. . . . Orringer's work has a glorious maturity and burnished grace. . . . Each story delivers the satisfying details and emotional heft of a novel." Elle "A fiercely beautiful debut. . . . Orringer delves into the harrowing rip tides of emotion and circumstance that disturb lives, "A major new talent. . . . How to Breathe Underwater is a dark and beautiful book." The New York Times Book Review "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 "Orringer's engaging wit, her eye for social detail, her ear for patterns of speech and thought, and her insights into human nature proclaim her a writer to be reckoned with." Los Angeles Times "Captivating. . . . Orringer limns the ordinary, terrifying time between childhood and maturity so skillfully." San Francisco Chronicle "Pure gems, rollicking along with scintillating prose and surety. Just when you think they will stopand lesser writers would stopthey keep going with inexorable momentum." Ploughshare "The harsh landscape in which Orringer's characters dwell corresponds to the fierce beauty of her writing. Even the grimmest of these stories conveys, along with anguish, a child's spark of mystery and wonder." The New York Times "Beautiful, so wise and vital. . . . It's impossible not to feel for the pained and alienated young women in Orringer's stories, and impossible not to be stunned and moved by their quests for redemption. More so than any debut author in recent years, Orringer proves that the kids are all right, even when they're not." The Austin Chronicle "Utterly authentic . . . the passage through childhood and puberty is strewn with dangers and roadblocks. But what [Orringer] does with those hazards in her stories is something altogether magical." The Seattle Times "Eloquent. . . . Orringer sifts the inexorable sparks of sexual awakening and unearths moments of brittle surprise and bitter triumph. . . . Haunting." Miami Herald "Unclouded by sentimentality . . . Orringer endows her situations and her charactersadults as well as childrenwith complexity and humor. . . . She writes with penetrating intelligence and remarkable self-possession." The Boston Globe "How to Breathe Underwater is unbelievably good: the humiliations and cruelties and passions of childhood, sparkling fresh prose, a writer with a big heart and an acute sense of the small things that loom large in our lives." Monica Ali, The Guardian "Absolutely magnificent. . . . In Orringer's world, we are forced to remember that time in our lives when we had to tolerate mystery and meaningless, because, to the child in each of us, the world is still a murkyand potentially magical place." Ms. Magazine "Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth about the fears, cruelties, and humiliations of childhood, but then does that rarest, and more difficult, thing: writes equally beautifully about the moments of victory and transcendence." George Saunders "Fair Warning: Once you start reading Julie Orringer's debut collection of short stories, How to Breathe Underwater, you may find yourself unable to stop. . . . Orringer's work has a glorious maturity and burnished grace. . . . Each story delivers the satisfying details and emotional heft of a novel." Elle "A fiercely beautiful debut. . . . Orringer delves into the harrowing rip tides of emotion and circumstance that distur, "A major new talent. . . .How to Breathe Underwateris a dark and beautiful book." The New York Times Book Review "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 "Orringer's engaging wit, her eye for social detail, her ear for patterns of speech and thought, and her insights into human nature proclaim her a writer to be reckoned with." Los Angeles Times "Captivating. . . . Orringer limns the ordinary, terrifying time between childhood and maturity so skillfully." San Francisco Chronicle "Pure gems, rollicking along with scintillating prose and surety. Just when you think they will stopand lesser writers would stopthey keep going with inexorable momentum." Ploughshare "The harsh landscape in which Orringer's characters dwell corresponds to the fierce beauty of her writing. Even the grimmest of these stories conveys, along with anguish, a child's spark of mystery and wonder." The New York Times "Beautiful, so wise and vital. . . . It's impossible not to feel for the pained and alienated young women in Orringer's stories, and impossible not to be stunned and moved by their quests for redemption. More so than any debut author in recent years, Orringer proves that the kids are all right, even when they're not." The Austin Chronicle "Utterly authentic . . . the passage through childhood and puberty is strewn with dangers and roadblocks. But what [Orringer] does with those hazards in her stories is something altogether magical." The Seattle Times "Eloquent. . . . Orringer sifts the inexorable sparks of sexual awakening and unearths moments of brittle surprise and bitter triumph. . . . Haunting." Miami Herald "Unclouded by sentimentality . . . Orringer endows her situations and her charactersadults as well as childrenwith complexity and humor. . . . She writes with penetrating intelligence and remarkable self-possession." The Boston Globe "How to Breathe Underwateris unbelievably good: the humiliations and cruelties and passions of childhood, sparkling fresh prose, a writer with a big heart and an acute sense of the small things that loom large in our lives." Monica Ali,The Guardian "Absolutely magnificent. . . . In Orringer's world, we are forced to remember that time in our lives when we had to tolerate mystery and meaningless, because, to the child in each of us, the world is still a murkyand potentially magical place." Ms. Magazine "Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth about the fears, cruelties, and humiliations of childhood, but then does that rarest, and more difficult, thing: writes equally beautifully about the moments of victory and transcendence." George Saunders "Fair Warning: Once you start reading Julie Orringer's debut collection of short stories,How to Breathe Underwater,you may find yourself unable to stop. . . . Orringer's work has a glorious maturity and burnished grace. . . . Each story delivers the satisfying details and emotional heft of a novel." Elle "A fiercely beautiful debut. . . . Orringer delves into the harrowing rip t
Copyright Date
2005
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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