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Vampires in the Lemon Grove: And Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Penned By Karen Russell
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove: And Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Penned By Karen Russell
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From the author of the novel Swamplandia! — a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize — comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author’s gifts at their inimitable best.Within these pages, a community of girls held captive in a Japanese silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms and plot revolution; a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow that bears an uncanny resemblance to a missing classmate that they used to torment; a family’s disastrous quest for land in the American West has grave consequences; and in the marvelous title story, two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try to slake their thirst for blood and come to terms with their immortal relationship.Vampires in the lemon grove --Reeling for the Empire --Seagull army descends on Strong Beach, 1979 --Proving up --Barn at the end of our term --Dougbert Shackleton's rules for Antarctic tailgating --New veterans --Graveless doll of Eric Mutis

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Length 245 Pages
Language Eng
Released February 12, 2013
Identifier (ISBN) 16685341
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Karen Russell is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Karen Russell can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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