A blazingly original voice, a dazzling debut, a breathtaking discovery.
These ten extraordinary stories introduce a blazingly original voice, a stunning debut, a breathtaking discovery. Longlisted for the Guardian first book award.
Karen Russell has been featured in both The New Yorker's debut fiction issue and New York magazine's 25 People to Watch Under the Age of 25. She is a graduate of the Columbia M.F.A. program and the 2005 recipient of the Transatlantic/Henfield Foundation Award; her fiction has recently appeared in Granta. Twenty-four years old, she lives in New York City.
Her debut collection paints a refreshingly surreal vision of
small-town life... Selected by Granta as one of America's
best young novelists, Russell is an intuitive writer with a gift
for arresting prose * Independent *
An exuberant collection; each story bursts forth from the pages
with a cacophony of imagery that sweeps up the reader * The Times
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Outrageously imaginative and profoundly funny... surreal...
impressive in many ways... Her imagination is agile, like the body
of a champion gymnast, and she lets it dance... Does anyone over
here write like this, with such freedom, such vivacity? A wild and
brilliant first book * Irish Times *
Arcane, magical tales of adolescent transformation... reminiscent
of Angela Carter but wonderfully confident and refreshing in its
own right * Guardian *
Delights in the quirky...truly magical and creepy settings * Daily
Mail *
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