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Swamplandia! /

Everglades (Fla.)

Swamplandia! /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : 單行本
正題名/作者:	Swamplandia! // Karen Russell
作者:	Russell, Karen,
出版者:	New York :Vintage Books, : 2011,
面頁冊數:	400 p. ;21 cm.;
附註:	"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, ... New York, in 2010"--T.p. verso
標題:	Alligators - Fiction -
標題:	Everglades (Fla.) - Fiction. -
ISBN:	0307276686 (pbk.) : \c US$14.95

Swamplandia! /
Russell, Karen,1981-

Swamplandia! /Karen Russell - 1st Vintage Books ed - New York :Vintage Books,2011 - 400 p. ;21 cm.

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, ... New York, in 2010"--T.p. verso

This novel takes us 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 no. 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 as well as her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking

ISBN: 0307276686 (pbk.) : \c US$14.95Subjects--Topical Terms:

583157
Alligators
--FictionSubjects--Geographical Terms:

580172
Everglades (Fla.)
--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3618.U755 / S93 2011

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