Orange world and other stories

Author

Karen Russell

Call Number

• FICTION RUSS (OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Physical Description

271 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

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. 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. In "The Prospectors," two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. 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. 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.

Notes

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

Contents

• Prospectors
• Bad graft
• Bog girl: a romance
• Madame Bovary's greyhound
• Tornado auction
• Black Corfu
• Gondoliers
• Orange world.