Swamplandia!
- ISBN-10
- 1444809806
- ISBN-13
- 9781444809800
- Series
- Swamplandia!
- Category
- Alligators
- Pages
- 496
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Charnwood
- Authors
- Karen Russell, Karen Wallace
Description
'Swamplandia ' is a dark and mythic story, bursting with energy and an unstoppable inventiveness, by a writer with an astonishingly original and exuberant imagination.
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