Orange World and Other Stories

Orange World and Other Stories

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russellâ€™s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
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Karen Russellâ€™s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories.Â Inâ€œBog Girlâ€, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that heâ€™s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog.Â In â€œThe Prospectors,â€ two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives.Â In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infantâ€™s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the voidâ€”yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 35132955
Color Red
ReleaseDate 2019-05-14
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780525656135

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	35132955
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2019-05-14
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780525656135

Orange World and Other Stories

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