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Cargando... St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories (2006 original; edición 2006)por Karen Russell (Autor)
Información de la obraSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories por Karen Russell (2006)
  
» 4 más Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  banjo123 | Jan 29, 2024 |    ) Yggie | Oct 12, 2023 | Bizarre and kind of wonderful. One of the few times I wished that short stories were full length novels so that I could see where the story went. (  ) beentsy | Aug 12, 2023 | So here's the thing, all of these short stories are fantastical and magical and amazing, and almost none of them are finished. They have some things in common - most of them takes place on islands or at least near water - but they all feature very different characters and magic and settings. And, as I said, few a finished. Now, that's both good and bad. It's bad, because whenever I was really getting into a story it would end, all of a sudden, and I wouldn't ever get to know what happened to the characters. They were all so interesting, I swear, I would read a full-length novel about pretty much every story in this book, which is impressive. It's good, because it really did make it seems like all of these stories were part of a bigger world, that it wasn't just a story but a glimpse into someone's life, someone's world, and that if I just knew where to look I'd be able to find so much more of it. Which, really, is a magic of its own. So, I think the good part outweighs the bad part, but I still would have like much stories with some sort of ending. I like endings. ( ) upontheforemostship | Feb 22, 2023 | ) ViragoReads | Sep 30, 2022 |
 Narrated by strange, quiet children and nestled deep in the mystique of the Everglades, Karen Russell’s stories are unnerving, darkly funny, and immensely enjoyable. Their standard recipe takes a common coming-of-age theme—“my parents are lunatics,” “death is part of life,” “growing up is hard”—folds it into a surreal situation—“my dad is a Minotaur,” “I am trapped in a giant conch shell with a janitor,” “my 14 sisters and I were raised by werewolves and now nuns are trying to prepare us for life in polite society”—and tops it off with superb, efficient sentences. Tiene como guía de estudio aPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
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HTML:A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent. In the collections 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 DynastyGrandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Avaproprietors of Swamplandia!, the islands #1 Gator Theme Park and Caf. Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim Feed the gators, dont 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 youre a kid its often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them. Russells 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 lifein an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surrealKaren Russell shows us who we are and how we live. List of Readers Ava Wrestles the AlligatorArielle Sitrick Haunting OliviaZach McLarty Z.Z.s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered DreamersPatrick Mackie The Star-Gazers Log of Summer-Time CrimeNick Chamian from Childrens Reminiscences of the Westward MigrationJesse Bernstein Lady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial SnowsJ.B. Adkins The City of ShellsKathe Mazur Out To SeaArthur Morey Accident Brief, Occurrence # 00/422Kirby Heyborne St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by WolvesDeirdre Lovejoy. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Maybe I will try Swamplandia again. (