SWAMPLANDIA! by Karen Russell (2011) ~ SIGNED ~ First Edition, First Printing

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Signed , Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover/Dust Jacket, List: $24.95 Defect: Minor crinkling to top of dust jacket's spine + some extra factory ink to first page. Swamplandia! Named One of the Five Best Novels of 2011 by the New York Times. by Karen Russell The second youngest of The New Yorker 's 20 Under 40 list, this is her first novel . Her first book, the story collection, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves , was highly lauded by dozens of critics. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED by the author, in my presence, to full title page. No inscription; full signature only. From an event with Wells Tower in New York City on March 15, 2011. BONUSES: A copy of the New York Times summary of the top ten books of 2011 + two large/different promotional cards are included (see photos 2 and 3). Please only bid if you will pay within five days of auction's end. All domestic sales of $25 or more will be wrapped and shipped in a box. Shipping & Handling for USPS Media Mail is $3.75 (includes Delivery C onfirmation) Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate envelope is $6.95 (includes Delivery Confirmation) Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail International Flat Rate envelope is $14.95 I provide the highest quality author signed, first edition books. 100% authentic guaranteed - This is my COA "Certificate of Authenticity". I won't sell any signed book that I'm not 100% sure is hand signed by the author. I attended this Karen Russell and Wells Tower joint event in New York City on March 15, 2011. I'm not happy unless you are! Please email any questions. Thanks! “Karen Russell is young and talented, and has been given just about every age-appropriate honor there is—Best Young American Novelists, 20 Under 40, 5 Under 35. With her debut novel, though, she’s leaving the kids’ table forever. The bewitching Swamplandia! is a tremendous achievement for anyone, period. . . . Effortless prose and [a] small, beautifully drawn cast of characters . . . as densely organic as the swamp in which it is set.” —Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly, A– “If no such thing as the Great Floridian Novel already existed, consider it done. Karen Russell, anointed by Granta and The New Yorker as one our most brilliant young writers, fulfills the promise of her fiercely original 2006 story collection [with] a novel of idiosyncratic and eloquent language; hyperreal, Technicolor settings; and larger-than-life characters who are nonetheless heartbreakingly vulnerable and keenly emotional. It’s a tour de force. . . . Near-hallucinatory in its intensity—not only in it’s dark, sad, enthralling plot, but in its descriptions of the swamp: gorgeous, precise, lush poetry. The book becomes sharply suspenseful as Russell’s fearless eye and voice go deep into the swamps of adolescence, of what it is to lose a mother, and of Florida itself.” —Kate Christensen, Elle “Karen Russell is a fine purveyor of the unexpected, humorous and razor-sharp description . . . Exactly often enough, her vivid description gives way to a deftly inserted truth. . . . Swamplandia! flashes brilliantly—holographically—between a surreal tale brimming with sophisticated whimsy and an all-too-realistic portrait of a quaint but dysfunctional family under pressure in a world that threatens to make them obsolete. . . . Ava is a true contemporary heroine and not easily forgotten.” —Pam Houston, More “This impressively self-assured debut novel may bet the best book you’ll ever read about a girl trying to save her family’s alligator-wrestling theme park.” —Karen Holt, O, The Oprah Magazine “Winningly told . . . rambunctious.” —Megan O’Grady, Vogue “Russell does what she does best here—presenting a world we recognize and imbuing it with magical mysticism—and does it brilliantly. The surreal is never a prop, and there’s a heart to the writing that goes be... read more

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