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Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (2011, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307263991

ISBN-139780307263995

eBay Product ID (ePID)92484220

Product Key Features

Book TitleSwamplandia!

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicContemporary Women, General, Coming of Age, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorKaren Russell

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight21.5 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2010-036708

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisFrom the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves ("How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell's . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire"- Los Angeles Times Book Review ) comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava's father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a vibrant new voice in fiction.

LC Classification NumberPS3618.U755S93 2011