Orange World
'I loved Orange World [...] a collection of short stories in which demons live in drains, bog women come back from the dead and trees can grow inside the human body' - Daisy Johnson, New Statesman, BOOK OF THE YEARThese exuberant, unforgettable stories showcase Karen Russell's comedic and imaginative talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives. In 'The Bad Graft', a couple on a road trip stop in Joshua Tree National Park, where the spirit of a giant tree accidentally infects the young woman, their fates becoming permanently entangled. In 'The Prospectors' two opportunistic young women fleeing the Depres…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5291-1134-7
- EAN: 9781529111347
- Produktnummer: 33220148
- Verlag: Random House Uk Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 266 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.2 cm x D4.0 cm 230 g
- Gewicht: 230
Über den Autor
Karen Russell, a native of Miami, has been featured in the New Yorker's debut fiction issue, was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007, and was named one of New Yorker magazine's 20 Under 40. Her first collection of short stories, St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, was longlisted for the Guardian first book award. Her novel, Swamplandia!, was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and shortlisted for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.Altogether Karen has now won 2 National Magazine awards and had 4 of her stories published in Best American Short Stories. Both Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove have been US bestsellers. And in 2013 Karen won a MacArthur 'Genius' Grant. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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