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Orange World by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmerising talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives are on display in these exuberant, unforgettable stories. In 'The Bad Graft', a couple on a road trip stop in Joshua Tree National Park, where the spirit of a giant tree accid ...Show more
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her extraordinary gifts of language and imagination These eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, emotionally ...Show more
Sleep Donation by Karen Russell
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics -- VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES 'Sleep Donation has a dreamlike beauty while remaining ominous and off-kilter. Parts of it gave me nightmares' Stephen ...Show more
St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A "New York Times" Best Book of the YearOne of "Granta's" Best Young American NovelistsSelected for the "New Yorker's" 20 Under 40Nominated for the Orange Prize Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida ...Show more
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
An awkward teen with a terrible haircut has a reversal of fortune when he finds artefacts from the future lining a seagulls' nest. In a godforsaken barn, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams and Rutherford B. Hayes are bemused to find themselves reincarnated as horses. Clyde and Magreb - he a traditional c ...Show more
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