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St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
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| by Karen Russell |
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Product code: 243040, ISBN: 0701181184,
256 pages, paperback, published by Chatto & Windus, 2007
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| Description of St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves |
This book is a miracle. Karen Russell is a literary mystic, channelling spectral tales that surge with feeling. A devastatingly beautiful debut by a powerful new writer.’ Ben Marcus
Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. 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 crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to ‘Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers’ (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Insomniacs; Cabin 3, Somnambulists. . . ); a Minotaur leads his family on the trail out West, and finally, in the collection’s poignant and hilarious title story, fifteen girls raised by wolves are painstakingly re-civilised by nuns.
These ten extraordinary stories introduce an audacious new talent, and a world in which weird and wonderful predicaments magically reveal the truth of our own lives. A blazingly original voice, a dazzling debut, a breathtaking discovery.
Endlessly inventive, over-the-top, over-the-edge stories, all delivered in the most confident, exquisitely rambunctious manner. Fabulous fun.' Joy Williams
In her hotly anticipated debut, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, 25-year-old wunderkind Karen Russell—whose house-afire prose has already lit up the pages of Granta and The New Yorker—proves herself a mythologist of the darkest and most disturbing sort. These 10 unforgettable, gorgeously imaginative tales, set mostly in Florida and told from the perspective of children, unfold in and around the Sunshine State’s down-at-the-heels beach resorts, lonely retirement communities, and seedy theme parks. With a flair for transforming common aspects of local culture—from gators to sand-sledding—into wondrous miracles, Russell also cuts straight to the heart of adolescence; the kids in these stories cling feverishly to the illusions of their childhood and long for a better world Elle
Merges the satirical spirit of George Saunders with the sophisticated whimsy of recent animated Hollywood film... Russell has powers of description and mimicry reminiscent of Jonathan Safron Foer and her macabre fantasies structurally evoke great Southern writers like Flannery O'Connor. Publishers Weekly |
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