Карен Расселл

In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here, wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns; a family makes its living wrestling alligators in a theme park; and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning inventiveness and heart, St. Lucy?s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduces a radiant new...

Десять потрясающих историй, удивительным образом балансирующих на грани между реальностью и причудливой фантасмагорией. Монахини из приюта пытаются "очеловечить" девушек, воспитанных волками, но не все поддаются перевоспитанию. А те, кто поддался, приобретают и человеческие пороки…. Ледовый дворец – единственное развлечение жителей захолустного городка. Там имеется вечернее шоу для взрослых "Мете...

A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy?s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent. In the collection?s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are

In these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning inventiveness and heart, St. Lucy?s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduces a radiant new writ...

A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy?s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent. In the collection?s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In ?Haunting Olivia,? two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant c...

Swamplandia! is the story of Ava Bigtree, a 12-year-old alligator wrestler who embarks on an improbable journey through the mangrove wilderness of southwest Florida in search of a lost sister. Young Osceola has run off with a ghost-figure named Louis Thanksgiving, and only Ava knows where to look for them, dreading what she might find. Passages of this fine novel call to mind Conrad, Garcia Marque...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Swamplandia!, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, an imaginative and haunting novella about an insomnia epidemic set in the near future. A crisis has swept America. Hundreds of thousands have lost the ability to sleep. Enter the Slumber Corps, an organization that urges healthy dreamers to donate sleep to an insomniac. Under the wealthy and enig...

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 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 Europe...

In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here, wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns; a family makes its living wrestling alligators in a theme park; and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning inventiveness and heart, St. Lucy?s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduces a radiant new...

Десять потрясающих историй, удивительным образом балансирующих на грани между реальностью и причудливой фантасмагорией. Монахини из приюта пытаются "очеловечить" девушек, воспитанных волками, но не все поддаются перевоспитанию. А те, кто поддался, приобретают и человеческие пороки…. Ледовый дворец – единственное развлечение жителей захолустного городка. Там имеется вечернее шоу для взрослых "Мете...

A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy?s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent. In the collection?s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are

In these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning inventiveness and heart, St. Lucy?s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduces a radiant new writ...

A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy?s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent. In the collection?s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In ?Haunting Olivia,? two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant c...