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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
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2011
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- Titul
- Swamplandia!
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Karen Russell
- Vydavateľ
- Random House
- Rok vydania
- 2011
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 315
- ISBN10
- 070118602X
- ISBN13
- 9780701186029
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Príroda, Fantasy, Súčasná literatúra, Rodina, USA, Úmrtia, Spoločenské romány, Tajomné, mysteriózne, Magický realizmus, Nový začiatok, Znásilnenie, Súdržnosť, Človek a príroda, Florida, Južanská gotika, Exotika, Blata
- Prvé vydanie
- 2011
- Pôvodný názov
- Swamplandia!
- Hodnotenie
- 3,3 z 5
- Anotácia
- 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.