St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
by:
Karen Russell (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781283996723 (1283996723)
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition language: English
Karen Russell is one of the most talented and creative short story writers I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. The title story of this collection is one of my favorite short stories ever, and the rest of the collection does not disappoint. In these quirky magical realism tales, boys frantically...
To be reviewed in 2015.
Let me say straight out that I love Karen Russell’s use of language and her knack for creating these magical tales. St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is full of inventive and fun stories. Whether her characters are wrestling alligators or navigating giant conch shells or awkwardly watching w...
This seems to be a slightly unpopular opinion, I'm discovering - but I adore Karen Russell's work. I had some issues with [b:Swamplandia!|11252905|Swamplandia!|Karen Russell|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327933638s/11252905.jpg|13438215] but that book has stuck with me far longer than it had any ri...
It's always hard to generalise about a collection of short stories. I loved a few of them - mainly those that had fewer fantasy elements (The Star-Gazer’s Log of Summer-Time Crime, Out to Sea, The City of Shells). These conveyed loneliness in a moving way. They also showed in different ways how peop...
10 years ago
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