St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucyâ€™s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent.

In the collectionâ€™s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In â€œHaunting Olivia,â€ two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab. In â€œZ.Z.â€™s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers,â€ a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists . . . ). And â€œAva Wrestles the Alligatorâ€ introduces the remarkable Bigtree Wrestling Dynastyâ€”Grandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Avaâ€”proprietors of Swamplandia!, the islandâ€™s #1 Gator Theme Park and CafÃ©. Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim â€œFeed the gators, donâ€™t talk to strangers.â€ Left to look after seventy incubating alligators and an older sister who may or may not be having sex with a succubus, Ava meets the Bird Man, and learns that when youâ€™re a kid itâ€™s often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Russellâ€™s stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant lifeâ€”in an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surrealâ€”Karen Russell shows us who we are and how we live.

Country	USA
Author	Karen Russell
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780307263988
Edition	First Edition
Format	Deckle Edge
ISBN	0307263983
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2006-09-05
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2006-09-05
Studio	Knopf

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

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