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St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves : stories / Karen Russell.
Van Pelt Library PS3618.U755 S7 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, Karen, 1981-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Everglades (Fla.)--Fiction.
- Everglades (Fla.).
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Other Title:
- Saint Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- In these ten stories, Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolflike girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells.
- Contents:
- Ava wrestles the alligator
- Haunting Olivia
- Z.Z.'s sleep-away camp for disordered dreamers
- The star-gazer's log of summer-time crime
- from Children's reminiscences of the westward migration
- Lady Yeti and the palace of artificial snows
- The city of shells
- Out to sea
- Accident brief, occurrence # 00/442
- St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves.
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardcover: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
- ISBN:
- 0307276678
- 9780307276674
- OCLC:
- 148996887
- Publisher Number:
- 99946882297
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