{"product_id":"swamplandia-1","title":"Swamplandia!","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection \u003ci\u003eSt. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e (“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”—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fiction, Family Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Alfred A. Knopf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780307263995\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £9.65","offer_id":47909995872433,"sku":"SB-0307263991-C4","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0307263991.jpg?v=1789683321","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/swamplandia-1","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}