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Orange World
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‘I loved Orange World… a collection of short stories in which demons live in drains, bog women come back from the dead and trees can grow inside the human body’ Daisy Johnson, New Statesman BOOK OF THE YEAR’A rare combination of literary brilliance and unbridled entertainment’ Mark HaddonThese exuberant, unforgettable stories showcase Karen Russell’s comedic and imaginative talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives. In ‘The Bad Graft’, a couple on a road trip stop in Joshua Tree National Park, where the spirit of a giant tree accidentally infects the young woman, their fates becoming permanently entangled. In ‘The Prospectors’ two opportunistic young women fleeing the Depression strike out for new territory, but find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant and hilarious title story a new mother desperate to ensure her baby’s safety strikes a deal with the devil to protect her baby. Stories of survival, love and of surreal and magnificent transformation show Russell writing at exhilarating new heights.Praise for Orange World:’The worlds of the stories are entirely convincing, small pockets in which it is possible to become lost’ Guardian’One of our most original short story writers… Russell has impeccable command of her form’ New York Times Book Review
Additional information
| Weight | 0.204 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.8 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 288 |
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| Year Published | 2020-9-29 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 152911134X |
| About The Author | Karen Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Swamplandia! was one of the New York Times’ Top Ten Books and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of the 2024 Mary McCarthy Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzanes Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and two National Magazine Awards for Fiction. She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and selected for the New Yorker’s 20 under 40 list. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter. |
Superbly crafted…the weird and the outlandish exist side-by-side with everyday concerns… Russell is among the most skilled of this generation’s fabulist writers. In her surreal worlds, life is passing strange, but it is not devoid of wry comfort |
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| Other text | I loved Orange World by Karen Russell, which is a collection of short stories in which demons live in drains, bog women come back from the dead and trees can grow inside the human body |
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