Orange World and Other Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0525656138
- ISBN-13
- 9780525656135
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Karen Russell
Description
"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 imagination"--
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