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How to Breathe Underwater: Stories
How to Breathe Underwater Stories
Author: Julie Orringer
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781400034369
ISBN-10: 1400034361
Publication Date: 4/12/2005
Pages: 240
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 23 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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L avatar reviewed How to Breathe Underwater: Stories on
Helpful Score: 3
Wow - this book sounded interesting and it didn't disappoint! Each story is a snapshot into the lives of people struggling their own battles...not a "happy" book by any means, but the author brings the characters to life with color and imagination. Orringer is a "writer's writer" - never boring, and intelligent in voice. I'm not sure which short story was my favorite - many have stuck with me over the few days I have been reading them. Well worth the credit, and probably one of the best books I have read this year, How To Breathe Underwater satisfies in ways too numerous to count. :)
L avatar reviewed How to Breathe Underwater: Stories on
Helpful Score: 1
Wow - this book sounded interesting and it didn't disappoint! Each story is a snapshot into the lives of people struggling their own battles...not a "happy" book by any means, but the author brings the characters to life with color and imagination. Orringer is a "writer's writer" - never boring, and intelligent in voice. I'm not sure which short story was my favorite - many have stuck with me over the few days I have been reading them. Well worth the credit, and probably one of the best books I have read this year, How To Breathe Underwater satisfies in ways too numerous to count. :)
bananapancakes avatar reviewed How to Breathe Underwater: Stories on + 95 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Made up of several shorter stories, it provides a great look into the lives of teenage girls just trying to figure out life and how to somehow come out okay on the other end, how to make it when it doesn't seem possible, "how to breathe under water". I really enjoyed this book and read it in one evening, as each story is so good that you want to read just one more.
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L avatar reviewed How to Breathe Underwater: Stories on
Wow - this book sounded interesting and it didn't disappoint! Each story is a snapshot into the lives of people struggling their own battles...not a "happy" book by any means, but the author brings the characters to life with color and imagination. Orringer is a "writer's writer" - never boring, and intelligent in voice. I'm not sure which short story was my favorite - many have stuck with me over the few days I have been reading them. Well worth the credit, and probably one of the best books I have read this year, How To Breathe Underwater satisfies in ways too numerous to count. :)
bananapancakes avatar reviewed How to Breathe Underwater: Stories on + 95 more book reviews
Made up of several shorter stories, it provides a great look into the lives of teenage girls just trying to figure out life and how to somehow come out okay on the other end, how to make it when it doesn't seem possible, "how to breathe under water". I really enjoyed this book and read it in one evening, as each story is so good that you want to read just one more.


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