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Orange World and Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Russell, Karen

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 170 KB
Category: Fiction
City: New York
ISBN: 1984892045

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✦ Synopsis

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 Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.

Karen Russell'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. In"Bog Girl", a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he's extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In "The Prospectors," two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant's safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to...

✦ Subjects

Short stories, American -- 21st century

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