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Details

Description

1. 271 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "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 Romance," 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."--Book jacket.
2. This collection of short fiction by Russel showcases her gifts of language and imagination. She creates outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives-- but places them in a landscape of feral, slippery, purgatorial spaces. -- adapted from jacket

Uniform title

1. Short stories. Selections

Alternative title

1. Short stories.
2. Orange world and other stories

Subject

1. 2000-2099
2. Short stories, American -- 21st century
3. FICTION / Literary
4. Short stories, American

Genre/Form

1. Short stories.

Contents

1. The prospectors -- The bad graft -- Bog girl: a romance -- Madame Bovary's greyhound -- The tornado auction -- Black Corfu -- The Gondoliers -- Orange world.

Call number

1. JFD 19-514

Note

1. "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."--Title page verso.

Author

1. Russell, Karen, 1981- author.

Title

1. Orange world : and other stories / Karen Russell.

Publisher

1. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Added author

1. Container of (work): Russell, Karen, 1981- Prospectors.
2. Container of (work): Russell, Karen, 1981- Bad graft.
3. Container of (work): Russell, Karen, 1981- Bog girl: a romance.
4. Container of (work): Russell, Karen, 1981- Madame Boyary's greyhound.
5. Container of (work): Russell, Karen, 1981- Tornado auction.
6. Container of (work): Russell, Karen, 1981- Black Corfu.
7. Container of (work): Russell, Karen, 1981- Gondoliers.
8. Container of (work): Russell, Karen, 1981- Orange world.

Other form:

1. Online version: Russell, Karen, 1981- Orange world and other stories. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 9780525656142 (DLC) 2018059348

LCCN

1. 2018054561

Other standard identifier

1. 40029232445

ISBN

1. 9780525656135 hardcover
2. 0525656138 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFD 19-514