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008			110407s2011 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2010036708
020			_a9780307263995
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3618.U755 _bS93 2011
082	0	0	_aFIC RUS
100	1		_aRussell, Karen _d, 1981-
245	1	0	_aSwamplandia! _c/ Karen Russell
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2011.
300			_a315 p. _c; 25 cm.
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
520			_aTwelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava's father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety eight gators as well as her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking.
650			_aGirls _v--Fiction
650			_aMothers _x-Death _v--Fiction
650		0	_aMotherless families _x--Fiction
650		0	_aAmusement parks _v--Fiction
650		0	_aAlligators _v--Fiction
651		0	_aEverglades (FL) _x--Fiction
651			_aTen Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge (Florida) _v-Fiction
942			_cMO
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