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The antidote / Karen Russell.
Van Pelt Library PS3618.U755 A84 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Russell Antidote
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, Karen, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nebraska--Fiction.
- Nebraska.
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939--Fiction.
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
- Farmers--Fiction.
- Farmers.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Photographers--Fiction.
- Photographers.
- Witches--Fiction.
- Witches.
- Dust storms--Nebraska--Fiction.
- Dust storms.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 419 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
- Summary:
- "A gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraska town."-- Provided by publisher.
- "A gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraska town"-- Provided by publisher.
- The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing--not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch," whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples' memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch's apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town's secrets and its fate.
- Notes:
- "A Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Russell, Karen, 1981- Antidote.
- Online version: Russell, Karen, 1981- Antidote.
- ISBN:
- 9780593802250
- 059380225X
- OCLC:
- 1440668701
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