St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Paperback)

Karen Russell (author)

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Paperback 256 Pages
Published: 07/08/2008

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Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. Two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to 'Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers' (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Insomniacs; Cabin 3, Somnambulists. . . ); a Minotaur leads his family on the trail out West, and finally, in the collection's poignant and hilarious title story, fifteen girls raised by wolves are painstakingly re-civilised by nuns.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099507321
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 181 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

Her debut collection paints a refreshingly surreal vision of small-town life... Selected by Granta as one of America's best young novelists, Russell is an intuitive writer with a gift for arresting prose - Independent

An exuberant collection; each story bursts forth from the pages with a cacophony of imagery that sweeps up the reader - The Times

Outrageously imaginative and profoundly funny... surreal... impressive in many ways... Her imagination is agile, like the body of a champion gymnast, and she lets it dance... Does anyone over here write like this, with such freedom, such vivacity? A wild and brilliant first book - Irish Times

Arcane, magical tales of adolescent transformation... reminiscent of Angela Carter but wonderfully confident and refreshing in its own right - Guardian

Delights in the quirky...truly magical and creepy settings - Daily Mail