How to Breathe Underwater : Stories

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How to Breathe Underwater : Stories / Julie Orringe. - London : Penguin Group, 2005. - 226 stron ; 20 cm.

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Orringer Julie (1973- ). Autor Orringer Julie (1973- ). Pilgrims (eng.) Orringer Julie (1973- ). When She Is Old and I Am Famus (eng.) Orringer Julie (1973- ). Isabel Fish (eng.) Orringer Julie (1973- ). Note to Sixth-Grade Self (eng.) Orringer Julie (1973- ). Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones (eng.) Orringer Julie (1973- ). Care (eng.) Orringer Julie (1973- ). Stars of Motown Shining Bright (eng.) Orringer Julie (1973- ). What We Save (eng.) Orringer Julie (1973- ). Stations of the Cross (eng.)

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Dojrzewanie Dziewczęta Bliskie związki międzyludzkie Dyskryminacja

Genre/Form

Opowiadania i nowele

Instytucja

Penguin Group

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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There are copies available to loan: sygn. O 30470 (1 egz.)

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Na okładce: Picked AS A BBC Page Turner.

Na dole okładki: Book of the Month.

Formatted contents note

Zawiera: Pilgrims ; When She Is Old and i Am Famous ; The Isabel Fish ; Note to Sixth-Grade Self ; The Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones ; Care ; Stars of Motown Shining Bright ; What We Save ; Stations of the Cross.