Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries)

ISBN: 0307276686

Author: Russell, Karen

Condition: New

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 TimesThirteen-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.

• Swamplandia | Karen Russell | New York Times Best Seller | Paperback | Fiction