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Chargement... Swamplandia!. Karen Russell (édition 2011)par Karen Russell
Information sur l'oeuvreSwamplandia par Karen Russell
  
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  Domdupuis | Dec 27, 2018 | 
 Karen Russell, one of the New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40, is certainly very talented. She received wide acclaim for her first book, the story collection St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, which first introduced the Bigtree family in the story "Ava Wrestles the Alligator". This novel has already received great reviews in the US, and it's easy to see why. Many of her descriptions are quite dazzling. On the retirement boat, "The seniors got issued these pastel pajamas that made them look like Easter eggs in wheelchairs." In the swamp, "two black branches spooned out of the same wide trunk. They looked like mirror images, these branches, thin and papery and perfectly cupped, blue sky shining between them, and an egret sat on the scooped air like a pearl earring." Over 300 pages, the density of the prose can become a bit exhausting, however, and Russell's ability to describe everything in minute and quirky detail is sometimes overwhelming.  So Ms. Russell has quite a way with words. She begins with the alligators’ “icicle overbites,” the visiting tourists who “moved sproingingly from buttock to buttock in the stands,” the wild climate (“Our swamp got blown to green bits and reassembled, daily, hourly”), and the Bigtrees’ various thoughts about the theme park’s gators, or Seths. Leaving the origin of that nickname as one of this novel’s endless lovely surprises, let’s just say that Chief Bigtree holds the reptiles in low regard. “That creature is pure appetite in a leather case,” he warns Ava. But when Ava tenderly adopts a newborn bright-red creature as her secret pet, she says, “the rise and fall of the Seth’s belly scales could hypnotize me for an hour at a stretch.” A debut novel from Russell (stories: St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, 2006) about female alligator wrestlers, ghost boyfriends and a theme park called World of Darkness. Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
Swanplandia, propriete de la famille Bigtree, a longtemps ete le parc d'attractions le plus celebre de toute la Floride grace a sa vedette, la mere, dompteuse d'alligators de classe internationale. Apres sa mort prematuree, l'entreprise sombre dans le chaos et se retrouve a la merci d'un parc concurrent, bien plus moderne, le Monde de l'Obscur. Alors que son pere lache prise et que son frere et sa soeur s'egarent, Ava, la cadette, se donne pour mission de sauver les Bigtree du naufrage. Swanplandia est en cours de traduction dans une quinzaine de langues et la chaine HBO en a achete les droits pour l'adapter en serie televisee.Karen Russel ...] nous fait decouvrir un univers onirique malicieux et chatoyant... Le Figaro litteraire.Un miracle de fantaisie, d'immersion dans l'enfance et de delire poetique. Les InRockuptibles.Un roman d'aventures qui nous emmene dans un vrai grand huit d'emotions subtiles. Elle. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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