| "Brilliant, funny, original... also creepy and sinister... Karen Russell's Swamplandia! is every bit as good as her short stories promised it would be. This book will not leave my mind." Stephen King |
| "A wonderfully fertile novel by an unfairly talented writer." Joseph O'Neill |
A triumphant debut novel and follow-up to Karen Russell's universally acclaimed short story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline - think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Everglades - and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the World of Darkness. Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve, must manage seventy gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Her mother, Swamp landia!'s legendary headliner, has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her brother has secretly defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their sinking family afloat; and her father, Chief Bigtree, is AWOL. To save her family, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine.
Selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, Karen Russell is an irrepressible new voice in contemporary fiction.
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline - think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Everglades - and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the World of Darkness. Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve, must manage seventy gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Her mother, Swamp landia!'s legendary headliner, has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her brother has secretly defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their sinking family afloat; and her father, Chief Bigtree, is AWOL. To save her family, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine.
Selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, Karen Russell is an irrepressible new voice in contemporary fiction.
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Hardback Editions
February 2012 : Hardback
| Title: Swamplandia! Author(s): Karen Russell ISBN: 1-4448-0980-6 / 978-1-4448-0980-0 Publisher: Charnwood Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2011 : Hardback
| Title: Swamplandia! (Thorndike Press Large Print Reviews Choice) Author(s): Karen Russell ISBN: 1-4104-3841-4 / 978-1-4104-3841-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2011 : Library Binding
| Title: Swamplandia! (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries (Pb)) Author(s): Karen Russell ISBN: 0-606-23332-6 / 978-0-606-23332-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Turtleback Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
February 2011 : Hardback
| Title: Swamplandia! Author(s): Karen Russell ISBN: 0-307-26399-1 / 978-0-307-26399-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
April 2012 : Paperback
| Title: Swamplandia! Author(s): Karen Russell ISBN: 1-59413-574-6 / 9781594135743 (USA edition) Publisher: Large Print Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 2012 : Paperback
| Title: Swamplandia! Author(s): Karen Russell ISBN: 0-09-955583-2 / 978-0-09-955583-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries) Author(s): Karen Russell ISBN: 0-307-27668-6 / 978-0-307-27668-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Swamplandia! Author(s): Karen Russell ISBN: 0-7011-8602-X / 978-0-7011-8602-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Chatto & Windus Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
February 2011 : Audio CD
| Title: Swamplandia! Author(s): Karen Russell ISBN: 0-307-74887-1 / 978-0-307-74887-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
March 2012 : Kindle edition
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July 2011 : Unknown
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February 2011 : Kindle edition
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2011 : Unknown
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