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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. "Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.
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Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2011
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- (souple)
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- Titre
- Swamplandia!
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Karen Russell
- Éditeur
- Vintage
- Publié
- 2011
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0307276686
- ISBN13
- 9780307276681
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, La nature, Fantasy, Littérature contemporaine, Famille, États-Unis, Mort, Roman social, Mystèrieux, Réalisme magique, Nouveau Départ, Viol, Cohésion, Homme et Nature, Floride, Gothique du Sud, Exotisme, Marais
- Première publication
- 2011
- Titre original
- Swamplandia!
- Évaluation
- 3,3 sur 5
- Description
- NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. "Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.