Karen Russell, a native of Miami, won the 2012 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her first novel, Swamplandia! (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2012 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She lives in Philadelphia.
From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia! —a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best.
A dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull’s nest. A community of girls held captive in a silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms, spinning delicate threads from their own bellies, and escape by seizing the means of production for their own revolutionary ends. A massage therapist discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the tattoos on a war veteran’s lower torso. When a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow bearing an uncanny resemblance to the missing classmate they used to torment, an ordinary tale of high school bullying becomes a sinister fantasy of guilt and atonement. In a family’s disastrous quest for land in the American West, the monster is the human hunger for acquisition, and the victim is all we hold dear. And in the collection’s marvelous title story—an unforgettable parable of addiction and appetite, mortal terror and mortal love—two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood.
Karen Russell is one of today’s most celebrated and vital writers—honored in The New Yorker ’s list of the twenty best writers under the age of forty, Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, and the National Book Foundation’s five best writers under the age of thirty-five. Her wondrous new work displays a young writer of superlative originality and invention coming into the full range and scale of her powers.
發表於2025-01-31
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一年前閱讀作者Karen Russell長篇小說《Swamplandia!》的時候,我以為她的想像力來源於她打小生活的美國東南半島。這位土生土長的邁阿密姑娘將她人生的長篇處女座架構放在佛羅裏達外島的沼澤地。《Swamplandia!》這部生機勃勃不乏鬼魅元素的小說中,POV角色是十來歲的土著小姑...
評分一年前閱讀作者Karen Russell長篇小說《Swamplandia!》的時候,我以為她的想像力來源於她打小生活的美國東南半島。這位土生土長的邁阿密姑娘將她人生的長篇處女座架構放在佛羅裏達外島的沼澤地。《Swamplandia!》這部生機勃勃不乏鬼魅元素的小說中,POV角色是十來歲的土著小姑...
評分一年前閱讀作者Karen Russell長篇小說《Swamplandia!》的時候,我以為她的想像力來源於她打小生活的美國東南半島。這位土生土長的邁阿密姑娘將她人生的長篇處女座架構放在佛羅裏達外島的沼澤地。《Swamplandia!》這部生機勃勃不乏鬼魅元素的小說中,POV角色是十來歲的土著小姑...
評分(刊於2013年6月2日《上海書評》) “短篇小說在美國仍然生命力旺盛。” ——斯蒂芬·金(Stephen King)在 2007 年版《最佳美國短篇小說選》(The Best American Short Stories 2007)序言的開頭鏗鏘有力地寫道。但他馬上另起一段,帶著一些憂鬱的口氣補充:“我真希望上麵...
評分一年前閱讀作者Karen Russell長篇小說《Swamplandia!》的時候,我以為她的想像力來源於她打小生活的美國東南半島。這位土生土長的邁阿密姑娘將她人生的長篇處女座架構放在佛羅裏達外島的沼澤地。《Swamplandia!》這部生機勃勃不乏鬼魅元素的小說中,POV角色是十來歲的土著小姑...
圖書標籤: 美國 小說 美國小說 短篇 Vampires 英文閱讀 卡倫·羅素 祈然讀的書
文學意義大於社會意義的一本書,但也可能是我沒讀懂。Clyde violates the boundary of being a vampire as soon as he steps out under the sunshine and pursues love like mortals. The little girl oversteps the boundaries as well. The female vampire keeps her ordinary life, because she honors her true irreversible identity. All about boundary, reminding me of Parasite.
評分文辭優美的魔幻主義小說。好看,生詞量太大……
評分文學意義大於社會意義的一本書,但也可能是我沒讀懂。Clyde violates the boundary of being a vampire as soon as he steps out under the sunshine and pursues love like mortals. The little girl oversteps the boundaries as well. The female vampire keeps her ordinary life, because she honors her true irreversible identity. All about boundary, reminding me of Parasite.
評分文學意義大於社會意義的一本書,但也可能是我沒讀懂。Clyde violates the boundary of being a vampire as soon as he steps out under the sunshine and pursues love like mortals. The little girl oversteps the boundaries as well. The female vampire keeps her ordinary life, because she honors her true irreversible identity. All about boundary, reminding me of Parasite.
評分文辭優美的魔幻主義小說。好看,生詞量太大……
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