St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves : stories

Russell, Karen, 1981- author.

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In these ten glittering stories, Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolflike girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells.

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Everglades (Fla.) Fiction

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Fiction Short stories

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ISBN:

9780307276674
0307276678

Edition:

First Vintage Contemporaries edition

Description:

246 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Saint Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves

Notes:

Originally published in hardcover: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006

Contents:

Ava wrestles the alligator
Haunting Olivia
Z.Z.'s sleep-away camp for disordered dreamers
The star-gazer's log of summer-time crime
from Children's reminiscences of the westward migration
Lady Yeti and the palace of artificial snows
The city of shells
Out to sea
Accident brief, occurrence # 00/442
St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves

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1998168

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