St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

ISBN-13: 9780307276674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str.

Karen Russell

Opis

In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author of Swamplandia takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells.

Recenzje

A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
 

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness. Carlo Wolff, The Denver Post

  How I wish these were my own words, instead of breakneck demon writer Karen Russell s, whose stories begin, in prose form, where the jabberwock left off. . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire. Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review

  Karen Russell is a storyteller with a voice like no other. . . . Laced with humor and compassion. Lauren Gallo, People

  One of the strangest, creepiest, most surreal collections of tales published in recent memory. . . . Her writing bristles with confidence. June Sawyers, San Francisco Chronicle

  Twent-five--year-old wunderkind Karen Russell . . . proves herself a mythologist of the darkest and most disturbing sort. . . . Ten unforgettable, gorgeously imaginative tales. Jenny Feldman, Elle

O autorze

Karen Russell, a native of Miami, won the 2012 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her first novel, Swamplandia! (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2012 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She lives in Philadelphia.