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The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline and Swamplandia!, their island home in the Florida Everglades and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as The World of Darkness. Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve year old, must manage seventy gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Her mother, Swamplandia!'s legendary and beautiful star attraction, has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her Grandpa Sawtooth has been sent to the mainland to an old folk's home; her brother has secretly defected to The World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep the family afloat; and her father, the Chief, is AWOL. To save them, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine. Swamplandia! is a dark and mythic story, bursting with energy and an unstoppable inventiveness, by a writer with an astonishingly original and exuberant imagination.
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Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2011
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- Titolo
- Swamplandia!
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Karen Russell
- Editore
- Random House
- Pubblicato
- 2011
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 315
- ISBN10
- 070118602X
- ISBN13
- 9780701186029
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Natura, Fantasy, Famiglia, Narrativa contemporanea, USA, Morte, Romanzi sociali, Misterioso, Realismo magico, Nuovo Inizio, Stupro, Coesione, Uomo e natura, Florida, Gothic del Sud, Esotismo, Paludi
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2011
- Titolo originale
- Swamplandia!
- Valutazione
- 3,3 su 5
- Descrizione
- The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline and Swamplandia!, their island home in the Florida Everglades and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as The World of Darkness. Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve year old, must manage seventy gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Her mother, Swamplandia!'s legendary and beautiful star attraction, has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her Grandpa Sawtooth has been sent to the mainland to an old folk's home; her brother has secretly defected to The World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep the family afloat; and her father, the Chief, is AWOL. To save them, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine. Swamplandia! is a dark and mythic story, bursting with energy and an unstoppable inventiveness, by a writer with an astonishingly original and exuberant imagination.