A blazingly original voice, a dazzling debut, a breathtaking discovery.
These ten extraordinary stories introduce a blazingly original voice, a stunning debut, a breathtaking discovery. Longlisted for the Guardian first book award.
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 most recently 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 and her second short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, was recently published to critical acclaim.
Her debut collection paints a refreshingly surreal vision of
small-town life... Selected by Granta as one of America's best
young novelists, Russell is an intuitive writer with a gift for
arresting prose
*Independent*
An exuberant collection; each story bursts forth from the pages
with a cacophony of imagery that sweeps up the reader
*The Times*
Outrageously imaginative and profoundly funny... surreal...
impressive in many ways... Her imagination is agile, like the body
of a champion gymnast, and she lets it dance... Does anyone over
here write like this, with such freedom, such vivacity? A wild and
brilliant first book
*Irish Times*
Arcane, magical tales of adolescent transformation... reminiscent
of Angela Carter but wonderfully confident and refreshing in its
own right
*Guardian*
Delights in the quirky...truly magical and creepy settings
*Daily Mail*
Dazzling and moving
*Independent on Sunday*
Ten hugely entertaining short stories - including the hilarious
titular tale of 15 lupine adolescents - from hot young US writer
Russell
*Financial Times*
Russell proves herself the heir to Angela Carter in this simply
dazzling collection of short stories. With macabre humour, dark
fantasy and a haunting tone this is unforgettable stuff - even just
titles such as 'Lady Yeti And The Palace Of Artificial Snows' are
staggering.
*Scotland on Sunday*
These 10 inventive stories, set mostly in the Florida Everglades,
mix satire and sophisticated whimsy
*New York Times*
Karen Russell has produced an engaging debut. Her ability to
integrate mythology and the supernatural with the very
contemporary...is reminiscent of Angela Carter, but unlike Carter's
many imitators, Russell never descends into whimsy... In St Lucy's,
humans, ghosts and animals are utterly real; and Russell sells the
genuine article, a seemingly effortless writer
*Mslexia*
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