Swamplandia!

Hardcover | 1 February 2011

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Product Description

A triumphant debut novel and follow-up to Karen Russell's universally acclaimed short story collection "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.
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The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline--"think Buddenbrooks "set in the Florida Everglades--and Swamplandia , their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the World of Darkness. Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve, must manage seventy gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Her mother, Swamp landia 's legendary headliner, has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her brother has secretly defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their sinking family afloat; and her father, Chief Bigtree, is AWOL. To save her family, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine.
Selected as one of "Granta's" Best Young American Novelists, Karen Russell is an irrepressible new voice in contemporary fiction.

Industry Reviews

Praise for Karen Russell's "Swamplandia!
""Karen Russell is young and talented, and has been given just about every age-appropriate honor there is--Best Young American Novelists, 20 Under 40, 5 Under 35. With her debut novel, though, she's leaving the kids' table forever. The bewitching "Swamplandia!" is a tremendous achievement for anyone, period. . . . Effortless prose and [a] small, beautifully drawn cast of characters . . . as densely organic as the swamp in which it is set."
--Keith Staskiewicz, " Entertainment Weekly, A-
""If no such thing as the Great Floridian Novel already existed, consider it done. Karen Russell, anointed by "Granta "and "The New Yorker" as one our most brilliant young writers, fulfills the promise of her fiercely original 2006 story collection [with] a novel of idiosyncratic and eloquent language; hyperreal, Technicolor settings; and larger-than-life characters who are nonetheless heartbreakingly vulnerable and keenly emotional. It's ar

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