- Fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Florida, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades.
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- Author
- Karen Russell
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Artemis, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Chatto and Windus
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9780307276674
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