Swanplandia !

Informationen zum Autor Karen Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Swamplandia! was a New York Times Top Ten Book and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of the 2024 Mary McCarthy Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and two National Magazine Awards for Fiction. She was named one of Granta ’s Best Young American Novelists and selected for the New Yorker ’s 20 under 40 list. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter. Klappentext And then a mysterious figure called Bird Man guides Ava into a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, promising he can save both her sister and the park... Swamplandia! was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and shortlisted for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Zusammenfassung And then a mysterious figure called Bird Man guides Ava into a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, promising he can save both her sister and the park... Swamplandia! was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and shortlisted for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Russell, Russell Karen
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780099555834
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955583-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Florida, Everglades, Fantasy, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, Myth & legend told as fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), sisters; youth; florida; raised by wolves