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Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell 2019, Hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780525656135
- Book Title
- Orange World and Other Stories
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary
- Item Weight
- 15.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525656138
ISBN-13
9780525656135
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038686157
Product Key Features
Book Title
Orange World and Other Stories
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15.8 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-054561
Reviews
"Amidst the leading pack of talents Karen Russell writes the most like she's on fire, as in: this close to revelations. Orange World is her best collection yet. Her imagination's baroque syntax has been planed down to the absolute essentials, allowing the power of her vision to speak for itself...This is prophetic work written with clarifying fury." --John Freeman, Lit Hub, "A feast of invention and a fun house of surprising wisdom, Orange World contains a ghost-ship lodge, tourist trade in a post-apocalyptic drowned city, a tornado farm, a local succubus. Karen Russell moves from the farcical to the forbidden with tender conviction. Don't miss this book of marvels!" --Louise Erdrich "[A] brilliantly inventive... wonderful new collection of short stories...Russell grounds each story in human experience, both poignant and hilarious in turn... Underlying all of this is the exquisite beauty of Russell's sentences, which will repeatedly surprise readers with their imagery and masterful language." -- BookPage [starred review] "Eight crisp stories that will leave longtime fans hungry for more. Since her debut more than a decade ago, Russell has exhibited a commitment to turning recognizable worlds on their heads in prose so rich that sentences almost burst at the seams. Her third collection is no exception, and its subjects--forgotten pockets of violent American history, climate-related apocalypse, the trials of motherhood--feel fresh and urgent in her care...A momentous feat of storytelling in an already illustrious career." -- Kirkus Reviews [starred review] "Virtuoso Russell, gifted with acute insights, compassion, and a daring, free-diving imagination, explores the bewitching and bewildering dynamic between "the voracious appetite of nature and its yawning indifference" and humankind's relentless profligacy and obliviousness." -- Booklist [starred review] "Amidst the leading pack of talents Karen Russell writes the most like she's on fire, as in: this close to revelations. Orange World is her best collection yet. Her imagination's baroque syntax has been planed down to the absolute essentials, allowing the power of her vision to speak for itself...This is prophetic work written with clarifying fury." --John Freeman, Lit Hub
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
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 breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void--yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master., 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 breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void--yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
LC Classification Number
PS3618.U755A6 2019
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