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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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'An amazing debut. Conjures the same exhilaration I felt on reading Melissa Bank’s The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing’ -- Daily Telegraph
‘Outstanding’ -- Nick Hornby
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‘Outstanding’ -- Nick Hornby
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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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1400041112
- ISBN 13 9781400041114
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages226
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