VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE: STORIES by Karen Russell SIGNED+DATED+NYC 1st/1st

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Signed+Dated+NYC , Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover/Dust Jacket, List: $24.95 Vampires in the Lemon Grove Stories by Karen Russell Won the 2012 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her first novel, Swamplandia! (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her first story collection, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves , was highly praised. Russell is one of today’s most celebrated and vital writers—honored in The New Yorker ’s list of the twenty best writers under the age of forty, Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, and the National Book Foundation’s five best writers under the age of thirty-five. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED/DATED/PLACED , in my presence, to full title page. No inscription; full signature + 2.19.13 + NYC only. From an event with Karen Russell, Dina Nayeri, and Stuart Nadler in New York City on February 19, 2013. BONUSES: A copy of the event flyer + copies of four book reviews are included. 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 $3.95 (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 $25.95 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, Dina Nayeri, and Stuart Nadler event on February 19, 2013. I'm not happy unless you are! Please email any questions. Thanks! Book Description Release date: February 12, 2013 From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia! —a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best. A dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull’s nest. A community of girls held captive in a silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms, spinning delicate threads from their own bellies, and escape by seizing the means of production for their own revolutionary ends. A massage therapist discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the tattoos on a war veteran’s lower torso. When a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow bearing an uncanny resemblance to the missing classmate they used to torment, an ordinary tale of high school bullying becomes a sinister fantasy of guilt and atonement. In a family’s disastrous quest for land in the American West, the monster is the human hunger for acquisition, and the victim is all we hold dear. And in the collection’s marvelous title story—an unforgettable parable of addiction and appetite, mortal terror and mortal love—two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood. Karen Russell is one of today’s most celebrated and vital writers—honored in The New Yorker ’s list of the twenty best writers under the age of forty, Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, and the National Book Foundation’s five best writers under the age of thirty-five. Her wondrous new work displays a young writer of superlative originality and invention coming into the full range and scale of her powers. “ Vampires in the Lemon Grove shows Ms. Russell more in control of her craft than ever…Ms. Russell deftly combines elements of the weird and supernatural with acute psychological realism; elements of the gothic with dry, contemporary humor. From apparent influences as disparate as George Saunders, Saki, Stephen King, Carson McCullers and Joy Williams, she has fashioned a quirky, textured voice that is thoroughly her own:... read more

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