How to Breathe Underwater: Stories - Rilegato

Orringer, Julie

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ISBN 10: 1400041112 ISBN 13: 9781400041114

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

Riassunto

Introduces a debut collection of stories with a cast of characters who struggle with loss and suffering in their own way in such tales as "The Isabel Fish," "The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones," and "Pilgrims."

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“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

“Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories–wise, compassionate and haunting.” –Dan Chaon

“In How to Breathe Underwater, Julie Orringer delves into the complex lives of girls and young women, and with uncommon courage and exceptional clarity she shows us what she finds: passionate, often disturbing feelings of longing and jealousy and grief; an intense struggle to make sense of the unfathomable world of adults, and above all a determination to survive. These are tough, beautiful stories, piercing and true, and they mark the debut of an exceptionally gifted writer.” –Ann Packer

L'autore:

Julie Orringer is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Cornell University, and was a Stegner Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Ploughshares, The Pushcart Prize anthology, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She is thirty years old and lives in San Francisco.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1400041112
• ISBN 13: 9781400041114
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 226