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Description: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 crab. In "Z.Z.'s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers," a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists . . . ). And "Ava Wrestles the Alligator" introduces the remarkable Bigtree Wrestling Dynasty—Grandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Ava—proprietors of Swamplandia!, the island's #1 Gator Theme Park and Café. Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim "Feed the gators, don't talk to strangers." Left to look after seventy incubating alligators and an older sister who may or may not be having sex with a succubus, Ava meets the Bird Man, and learns that when you're a kid it's often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.Russell's stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant life—in an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surreal—Karen Russell shows us who we are and how we live.List of ReadersAva Wrestles the Alligator—Arielle SitrickHaunting Olivia—Zach McLartyZ.Z.'s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers—Patrick MackieThe Star-Gazer's Log of Summer-Time Crime—Nick Chamianfrom Children's Reminiscences of the Westward Migration—Jesse BernsteinLady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial Snows—J.B. AdkinsThe City of Shells—Kathe MazurOut To Sea—Arthur MoreyAccident Brief, Occurrence # 00/422—Kirby HeyborneSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves—Deirdre LovejoyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. To get started finding St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 8

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

Release: 2010

ISBN: 0307748863

Description: 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 crab. In "Z.Z.'s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers," a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists . . . ). And "Ava Wrestles the Alligator" introduces the remarkable Bigtree Wrestling Dynasty—Grandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Ava—proprietors of Swamplandia!, the island's #1 Gator Theme Park and Café. Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim "Feed the gators, don't talk to strangers." Left to look after seventy incubating alligators and an older sister who may or may not be having sex with a succubus, Ava meets the Bird Man, and learns that when you're a kid it's often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.Russell's stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant life—in an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surreal—Karen Russell shows us who we are and how we live.List of ReadersAva Wrestles the Alligator—Arielle SitrickHaunting Olivia—Zach McLartyZ.Z.'s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers—Patrick MackieThe Star-Gazer's Log of Summer-Time Crime—Nick Chamianfrom Children's Reminiscences of the Westward Migration—Jesse BernsteinLady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial Snows—J.B. AdkinsThe City of Shells—Kathe MazurOut To Sea—Arthur MoreyAccident Brief, Occurrence # 00/422—Kirby HeyborneSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves—Deirdre LovejoyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. To get started finding St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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