Karen Russell
Swamplandia!
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New York Times Bestseller - Pulitzer Prize FinalistMs. Russell is one in a million. . . . A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book.--The New York TimesThirteen-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…
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New York Times Bestseller - Pulitzer Prize FinalistMs. Russell is one in a million. . . . A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book.--The New York TimesThirteen-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.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-27668-1
- EAN: 9780307276681
- Produktnummer: 19434876
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H20.2 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.3 cm 309 g
- Gewicht: 309
Über den Autor
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.
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