- American Short stories, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, occult & supernatural
Six short stories with subjects ranging from a dejected teenager who discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull's nest to two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove who try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Karen Russell
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 258
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Kein + Aber, Tusquets Editores S.A.
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780099578963
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