03515cam a2200385 4500 596000336 TxAuBib 20220529120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307748904 0307748901 8e2625f6-9b5e-480b-8352-9a1a4ac5c336 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 335888 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Russell, Karen, 1981- Swamplandia [Libby]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2011. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 361MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 361MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection <i>St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves</i> (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i>) comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.<br /> <br /> The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava’s father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief.<br /> <br /> Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family’s struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a vibrant new voice in fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Notable Books for Adults. 10 Best Books of 2011. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-28 20:00:02. Sitrick, Arielle. Ackroyd, David. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/335888-Swamplandia.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/335888-Swamplandia.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8E2625F6-9B5E-480B-8352-9A1A4AC5C336&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/335888-Swamplandia.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/335888-Swamplandia.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8E2625F6-9B5E-480B-8352-9A1A4AC5C336&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)