Karen Russell, Author . Knopf $22 (246p) ISBN 978-0-307-26398-8
A series of upbeat, sentimental fables, the 10 stories of Russell's debut are set in an enchanted version of North America and narrated by articulate, emotionally precocious children from dysfunctional households. Each merges the satirical...
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Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-26399-5
Few novelists debut with as much hearty recommendation as Russell, a New Yorker 20-under-40 whose cunning first novel germinates a seed planted in her much-loved collection, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. We return to Swamplandia!, the...
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Karen Russell. Knopf, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-95723-8
There are only eight stories in Russell’s new collection, but as readers of Swamplandia! know, Russell doesn’t work small. She’s a world builder, and the stranger the better. Not that she writes fantasy, exactly: the worlds she creates live within...
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Karen Russell. Atavist Books, $3.99 e-book (110p) ISBN 978-1-937894-28-3
In 2013 Macarthur Fellow Russell's (Swamplandia!) speculative novella, a mysterious "insomnia epidemic" has become a national concern, generating 24/7 news coverage, as well as ubiquitous "Night Worlds" and sleep wards. Fortunately, a technology has
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Karen Russell, read by multiple narrators. Random House Audio, unabridged, library edition, eight CDs, 9.25 hours, $40 ISBN 978-0-449-01371-7
In this collection of stories from Russell (Swamplandia!), multiple threads are tied together by pervasive magical realism, with the author’s macabre imagination conjuring malevolent seagulls, karmic scarecrows, and melancholy vampires who sate...
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Karen Russell. Knopf, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-65613-5
The inimitable Russell (Vampires in the Lemon Grove) returns with a story collection that delights in the uncanny, parlaying the deeply fantastical to reflect the basest and most human of our desires. In “The Bad Graft,” an eloping young couple,...
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Karen Russell. Knopf, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-80225-0
The spellbinding latest from Russell (Swamplandia!) infuses a Dust Bowl epic with gothic melodrama. It takes place in 1935 Uz, Neb., where farms have been ruined by a never-ending drought. Many of the residents visit Antonina Rossi, a “prairie witch”
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