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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
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
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- Titel
- Swamplandia!
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Karen Russell
- Verlag
- Random House
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 315
- ISBN10
- 070118602X
- ISBN13
- 9780701186029
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Natur, Fantasy, Gegenwartsliteratur, Familie, USA, Tod, Literarische Fiktion, Geheimnisvoll, mysteriös, Magischer Realismus, Neuanfang, Vergewaltigung, Zusammenhalt, Mensch und Natur, Florida, Südstaaten-Gotik, Exotik, Sümpfe
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2011
- Originaltitel
- Swamplandia!
- Bewertung
- 3,3 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.