Orange World and Other Stories

Name: Orange World and Other Stories
Brand: Vintage
SKU: 9780525566076-PRUSDTR-US
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Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

288 pages • 5.2 x 8.0 x 0.85 in

Approx. weight: 0.6 lb

Publication date: 05 May,2020

Barcode: 9780525566076 • Vintage

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Fiction: general and literary
Short stories
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By: Karen Russell

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
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Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories.

In "Bog Girl," 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 Great Depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. And 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. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.