Swamplandia!
of Karen Russell (Goodreads Author)
Description
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in declineâthink Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergladesâand Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the "World of Darkness." Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve-year-old, must manage seventy gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Her mother, Swamplandia!âs legendary headliner, has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her brother has secretly defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their sinking family afloat; and her father, Chief Bigtree, is AWOL. To save her family, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the "Underworld," a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine.
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Book Details
- Format E-book
- Pages 418 pages
- Publisher 418
- Publication Date February 1st 2011
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN B004FGMQZC
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Everglades, Florida (United States)']
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