The Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor after losing their parents.
The Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor after losing their parents.
Here is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia! and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove.
Genevieve Hughes's eyes are like empty bowls that you want to fill with food. How has she lost so much weight and hair already? At home, she says, it got to where she was plucking out her eyelashes to stay awake, even as every cell in ...
Nal shouted, running the ball down the blacktop. “I'm talking to myself.” Then he'd take offsprinting down the road, but no matter how punishing the distance he ran—he once dribbled the ball all the way down to the ruined industrial ...
"From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her extraordinary gifts of language and ...
It’s the story of our continent, both land and people, and his writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes.”—Don DeLillo “The fiction of Peter Matthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to ...
This is a series of essays following a journey by Kent Russell who went over the country gathering experiences and comes back with a portrait of America and manhood.
Swamplandia: Roman
" In the summer of 2016, Kent Russell--broke, at loose ends, hungry for adventure--set off to walk across Florida.
A 13-year-old, enriched by her knowledge of Golden Age mythologies but burdened with the pressures of family history and contemporary life, comes of age in this engaging novel.