How to Breathe Underwater

Orringer, Julie

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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, 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
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Orringer, Julie
Titel
How to Breathe Underwater
Uitgever
Knopf
Jaar
2005
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
242
Gewicht
254 gr
EAN
9781400034369
Afmetingen
210 x 133 x 13 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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