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Original Title:	Swamplandia!
ISBN:	0307263991 (ISBN13: 9780307263995)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ava Bigtree, The Bird Man, Osceola Bigtree, Kiwi Bigtree, Hilola Bigtree, Sam (Chief) Bigtree, Louis Thanksgiving Auschenbliss
Setting:	Everglades, Florida(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2012), New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2012), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2011), Orion Book Award Nominee (2012), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (Shortlist) (2012) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2011), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2013)

Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

Hardcover | Pages: 323 pages

Rating: 3.24 | 49396 Users | 7668 Reviews

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Title	:	Swamplandia!
Author	:	Karen Russell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 323 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2011 by Knopf
Categories	:	Fiction. Magical Realism. Fantasy. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

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From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.

The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava’s father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief.

Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family’s struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a vibrant new voice in fiction.

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When you are a kid, you dont know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence.This book had so much potential and Karen Russell is a talented writer..things just didnt come together. It took me three tries to make it through to the end. We start with this slightly dysfunctional family running their alligator park, coping with the death of the mother who held everything together. This I felt was the strongest part of the

I live-tweeted my reading of part of this book (because I'm hunkered down for Hurricane Irma but thankfully I still have power). For a more extensive version of my thoughts on Swamplandia!, you can read the series of tweets.In the end, I thought that Swamplandia! was a novel that really should have been a few strong short stories instead.There was a lot to like about the book. I especially enjoyed the specificity Russell used when she talked about ecology, flora and fauna, and Florida history.

**** 3/4Getting into this story was a bit of a task. Somewhere around page 89, however, I realized that I didn't want to put it down. Russell is an excellent writer, despite the occasional split infinitive (personal pet peeve), and her story sparked some truly rich and engaging discussion one particularly fine April evening. This is a novel that lends itself to discussion and not of the "I liked it when..." variety. Russell's approach is subtle; she is a master of "showing rather than telling,"

Swamplandia! is its very own Rorschach test. A reader can see in it most anything he or she wants. Is it a terrifying supernatural thriller? A fast-paced adventure story? An elegiac narrative about a dysfunctional family slowly spinning out of control? A cautionary tale about the perils of being an outsider? Or a quirky and dream-like parable using the swamp as a mythic archetype?In fact, its all these things. Yet above all else, Swamplandia! is a lavishly imagined and highly original

The best book Ive read in ten years, exclaimed my older brother, Phil. Given that he is a bit weird, as are his tastes, I took his words with a shaker of salt. Phil was one of the very first hippies in Kansas, back when they were ostracized as if they had some deadly communicable disease. He has always marched to his own drum beat, a bizarre cadence that I often dont hear or fully understand. So I assumed that Karen Russells Swamplandia would be as unconventional as my brother. But I had read

This young author was successful at writing narrative in the first person, characterized simultaneously by the limited perspective and understanding of a child and insights befitting an adult. Her descriptions of the flora and fauna of a Florida swamp suggest an interest or training in botony/zoology, and she writes persuasively and sensitively about her protagonist's parents - a couple trying, and failing, to live outside of society to realize their Utopian dream on the island known as

Well . . . well, okay. Okay, no. I mean, yes--she has a seriously goddamn dazzling instinct when it comes to turning an exquisite phrase. And the plot is inventive. And it's set in Florida, land of my sticky swampy childhood (o heart, o little busted swampheart). But . . . she has NO instinct for measuring out her exquisite phrases in palatable dollops; she just smears them all over every page with the mindless wonky-eyed mania of a two-year old frosting a cake--globs and wads of sugarpaste