Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
A New York Times Best Book of the YearOne of Granta's Best Young American Novelists
Selected for the New Yorker's 20 Under 40
Nominated for the Orange Prize
Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia , her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava sets out on a mission through the magical swamps to save them all, we are drawn into a lush and bravely imagined debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.
Karen Russell, a native of Miami, has been featured in both The New Yorker's debut fiction issue and New York magazine's list of twenty-five people to watch under the age of twenty-six. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program and is the 2005 recipient of the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award; her fiction has recently appeared in Conjunctions, Granta, Zoetrope, Oxford American, and The New Yorker. Twenty-five years old, she lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307263995 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307263991 |
| Title | Swamplandia! |
| Author | Karen Russell |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2011-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 315 |
| Prizes | Winner of ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2012, Commended for Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) 2012, Commended for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013, Commended for Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (Fiction) 2012 |
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