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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
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2011
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- Titel
- Swamplandia!
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Karen Russell
- Uitgever
- Vintage
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2011
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0307276686
- ISBN13
- 9780307276681
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Natuur, Fantasy, Familie, Hedendaagse literatuur, Verenigde Staten, Dood, Maatschappelijke romans, Mysterieus, Magisch realisme, Nieuwe Begin, Verkrachting, Samenhang, Mens en Natuur, Florida, Zuidelijke Gothic, Exotica, Moerassen
- Eerste editie
- 2011
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- Swamplandia!
- Beoordeling
- 3,3 van 5
- Aantekening
- 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.