![]() ![]() "A rich and humid world of spirits and dreams, buzzing mosquitoes and prehistoric reptiles, baby-green cocoplums and marsh rabbits, and musty old tomes about heroes and spells. "Wonderfully imaginative." - The Seattle Times Like the state itself, Swamplandia! is a crossroads where the wild and the tame, the spectacular and the mundane meet underneath the hubbub of the fantastic lies a family of misfits at sea in their grief-theirs is a story that is as ordinary as it is heartbreaking." - Boston Globe "A spook-house masterpiece." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Beautiful, dark, and funny." - Rolling Stone ![]() A novel of idiosyncratic and eloquent language hyperreal, Technicolor settings and larger-than-life characters who are nonetheless heartbreakingly vulnerable and keenly emotional. "If no such thing as the Great Floridian Novel already existed, consider it done. ![]() "Seduces before you've turned the first page." - People ![]() "The bewitching Swamplandia! is a tremendous achievement." - Entertainment Weekly will lodge in the memories of anyone lucky enough to read Swamplandia!" - The New York Times Book Review This family, wrestling with their desires and demons. "Vividly worded, exuberant in characterization, the novel is a wild ride. Russell has deep and true talent." - San Francisco Chronicle " has thrown the whole circus of her heart onto the page, safety nets be damned. Selected for the New Yorker's 20 Under 40 One of Granta's Best Young American Novelists ![]()
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