How to Breathe Underwater (Paperback)

Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning 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.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	April 2005
Authors:	Julie Orringer
Dimensions:	202 x 150 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	226
ISBN-13:	978-1-4000-3436-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	1-4000-3436-1
Barcode:	9781400034369

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