Orange World and Other Stories

Posted on 10 September 2017 by Karen Russell

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandiaand Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.Karen Russell s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories In Bog Girl , a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog In The Prospectors, two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master. New Download eBook Orange World and Other Stories author Karen Russell – kino-fada.fr NOW AVAILABLE i ve already read and reviewed the first two stories in this collection The Prospectors and The Bad Graft during 2017 s december advent calendar, so i m ahead of the game and you, too, can be ahead of the game, as four of the eight stories in this collection previously appeared in the new yorker here are your links orange world, bog girl, the prospectors, and the bad graft.i m not sure if the other stories can be found elsewhere, but don t go looking for them online they a NOW AVAILABLE i ve already read and reviewed the first two stories in this collection The Prospectors and The Bad Graft during 2017 s december advent calendar, so i m ahead of the game and you, too, can be ahead of the game, as four of the eight stories in this collection previously appeared in the new yorker here are your links orange world, bog girl, the prospectors, and the bad graft.i m not sure if the other stories can be found elsewhere, but don t go looking for them online they are right here in this book and even though karen russell is giving her milk away for free, you should still buy this cow it s got a FOX on the cover sentences like that make me wonder if my brain s got one of those slow leaks in it incidentally, the eponymous story here is about a new mother giving her milk away for free to the devil so, if you just read all her stories for free, you will be as big a freeloader as the devil,...What Russell has accomplished with these stories is hard to describe, but I ll try She takes what often starts off as a relatively normal situation, and then pulls the stories into a surreal world One never knows when, how or even why it happens but it does I m always in awe of authors who have this kind of imagination, and write so well that the reader accepts these situations as they are Fiendish This is a strong work Eight stories, all but one I liked, the first, The Prospector my favori What Russell has accomplished with these stories is hard to describe, but I ll try She takes what often starts off as a relatively normal situation, and then pulls the stories into a surreal world One never knows when, how or even why it happens but it does I m always in awe of authors who have this kind of imagination, and write so well that the reader accepts these...O.K., Yvette says, breathing loudly through her nose That s O.K Weaning is a process A group of lactating mothers work together to defeat a very hungry demon Sounds bizarre, I know, but I found it to be quite a mesmerizing ...This is my second favorite Karen Russell I will always hold St Lucy s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves as one of my favorite books Top stories include The Bad Graft, Bog Girl A Romance, and The Gondoliers All of these have some kind of conflict between humans and the natural world, from infiltrating cacti to corpses to a Florida covered in toxic water.Here is a link to The Bad Graft in the New Yorker if you want to try it out At ALA Midwinter, the publisher literally gave the last galley of This is my second favorite Karen Russell I will always hold St Lucy s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves as one of my favorite books Top stories include The Bad Graft, Bog Girl A Romance, and The Gondoliers All of these have some kind of conflict between humans and the natural world, from infiltrating cacti to corpses to a Florida covered in toxic water.Here is a link to The Bad Graft in the New Yorker if...This was a fascinating collection of short stories They were all great, but The Tornado Auction was definitely my favorite that one will stick with me for a long time.Having new books by Helen Phillips The Need read it immediately and Karen Russell in the same year is almostexcitement than I can handle Both writers work in the literary surreal purgatorial unsettling horror weird space and I very much love it These stories are truly brilliant and R...I remember when Swamplandia came out, and I obsessively recommended and described it to people I must ve been such a charming dinner guest As far as I m concerned, Orange World and Other Stories is the pinnacle of Russell s stylistic and imaginative achievement thus far Each of her tales is so vivid and slightly askew With a central fantastic conceit played out in an insistently realistic world not necessarily our world, mind you, but a realistic one often melding contexts with which h I remember when Swamplandia came out, and I obsessively recommended and described it to people I must ve been such a charming dinner guest As far as I m concerned, Orange World and Other Stories is the pinnacle of Russell s stylistic and imaginative achievement thus far Each of her tales is so vivid and slightly askew With a central fantastic conceit played out in an insistently realistic world not necessarily our world, mind you, but a realistic one often melding contexts with which her readers are familiar in a phantasmagoric shorthand For example, in one story, people breed tornadoes for the rodeo, for example, and Russell brilliantly entangles the rich idioms of catastrophic weather and bull breeding In another, climate change and pollution have led to a New Florida, and teenage girls become gondoliers The cli fi context is constantly offset by this vaguely Venetian fantasy and then compounded in...How does she condense so much narrative into each perfectly calibrated, brightly colored story The secret must lie in those sentences, oh my GOD, Russell s prose is a reminder of what it is to read and enjoy a singular voice I am so in love with this book It s her best so far, and that s ...I have no idea how Russell comes up with these mystical and bizarre stories, but I m glad that she does The Bad Graft is the story of a Joshua Tree s spirit invading a woman s body that I can t stop thinking about then there s The Gondoliers , with gorgeous description of the eerily real future of Florida, somewhat abandoned after an environmental catastrophe and the short but bittersweet life of a dog in Madame Bovary s Greyhound This collection is altogether enchanting with a light se I have no idea how Russell comes up with these mystical and bizarre stories, but I m glad that she does The Bad Graft is the story of a Joshua Tree s spirit invading a woman s body that I can t stop thinking about then there s The Gondoliers , with gorgeous description of the eerily real future of Florida, somewh...This is a fantasy supernatural magic realism short story about a new mother and her fears It can be nominated for this year Hugo.This is a story of a woman, who while not exactly young is the first time mother She is afraid to lose her child and has a deal with a devil to protect the child She is not the only one After the birth, the devil demand a daily breast feeding, exhausting the mother.It can be seen as an allusion of post partum depression orgeneral, a fear that anything can hur This is a fantasy supernatural magic realism short story about a new mother and her fears It can be nominated for this year Hugo.This is a story of a woman, who while not exactly young is the first time mother She is afraid to lose her child and has a deal with a devil to protect the child She is not the only one After the birth, the devil demand...I will say that Karen Russell s imagination is Fertile and complex place Her short stories are incredibly varied and always unexpected Unfortunately, I just didn t engage with most of these I often leave her work thinking I should like it, but alas Interesting enough little tale but really suffers for being too little Well written but ultimately goes nowhere or jumps off before the final destination This would make a decent book though It s free follow the link on the page

10 September 2017

Karen Russell