Incandescent. horror always cohabits with humor. "Another set of masterpieces…Russell’s language rockets off the page…one of our most entrancing storytellers.”
Russell's ease with her material, her sheer glee on the page, shines through in each piece.
Orange World makes me want to shout with joy. "The must-read short-story collection of the summer. Orange World is a thing of beauty, a stunning collection from one of the most brilliant literary minds of her generation.” Russell is one of the most original American authors working today. Her imagination is boundless.Russell's last book, Vampires in the Lemon Grove was far and away one of the best books of 2013, and Orange World proves that the author has only gotten better. John Mandel, The New York Times book review " of our most original short story writers. has impeccable command of her form.Russell’s particular gift lies in taking themes that are close to universal and presenting them in stories whose strangeness comes to seem entirely natural, even necessary." Her imagination spills over the sink and hits the backsplash." Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void-yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories.
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 Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
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