Written by Karen Russell


Knopf
Category: Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Humorous Format: Hardcover, 256 pages On Sale Date: February 2013 Old On Sale Date (as of 3/12/12): October 2012 Price US: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-95723-8
Also available as an unabridged audio CD, unabridged audiobook download, unabridged audiobook download, eBook and a trade paperback.


About this Book...

From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.

In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979," a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull's nest. "Proving Up" and "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis"--stories of children left to fend for themselves in dire predicaments--find Russell veering into more sinister territory, and ultimately crossing the line into full-scale horror. In "The New Veterans," a massage therapist working with a tattooed war veteran discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the images on his body. In all, these wondrous new pieces display a young writer of superlative originality and invention coming into the full range and scale of her powers.