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How to breathe underwater : stories
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How to breathe underwater : stories

Auteur : Julie Orringer
Éditeur : New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Édition/format :   Livre : Fiction : Anglais : 1st edVoir toutes les éditions et les formats
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Nine fiercely beautiful, impossible to put down stories from a young writer who has already received immediate worldwide attention. Julie Orringer's characters all of them submerged by loss, whether of parents or lovers or a viable relationship to the world in general struggle mightily against the wildly engulfing forces that threaten to overtake us all. All of them learn, gloriously if at great cost, how to breathe  Lire la suite...
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Format physique additionnel : Online version:
Orringer, Julie.
How to breathe underwater.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003
(OCoLC)606993248
Online version:
Orringer, Julie.
How to breathe underwater.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003
(OCoLC)607797912
Type d’ouvrage : Fiction, Ressource Internet
Format : Livre, Ressource Internet
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : Julie Orringer
ISBN : 1400041112 9781400041114
Numéro OCLC : 51304048
Description : 226 p. ; 22 cm.
Contenu : 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.
Responsabilité : Julie Orringer.
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Résumé :

Nine fiercely beautiful, impossible to put down stories from a young writer who has already received immediate worldwide attention. Julie Orringer's characters all of them submerged by loss, whether of parents or lovers or a viable relationship to the world in general struggle mightily against the wildly engulfing forces that threaten to overtake us all. All of them learn, gloriously if at great cost, how to breathe underwater. In "Pilgrims," a band of motherless children torment each other on Thanksgiving day. In "The Isabel Fish," the sole survivor of a drowning accident takes up scuba diving. In "When She Is Old and I Am Famous," a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty ("Aida. That is her terrible name. Ai ee duh: two cries of pain and one of stupidity"). In "The Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones," the failure of religious and moral codes to protect, to comfort, to offer solace is seen through the eyes of a group of Orthodox Jewish adolescents discovering the irresistible power of their burgeoning sexuality. In story after story, Orringer captures moments when the dark contours of the adult world come sharply into focus: Here are young people abandoned to their own devices, thrust too soon into predicaments of insoluble difficulty, and left to fend for themselves against the wide variety of human trouble. Buoyed by the exquisite tenderness of remembered love, they learn to take up residence in this strange new territory, if not to transcend it, and to fashion from their grief new selves, new lives. Orringer's debut collection blazes with emotion, with human appetite, with fortitude, with despair; these nine uncommonly wise and assured stories introduce an astonishing new talent.

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