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005 20221121210639.0
008 060327s2006 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPS3618.U755$bS7 2006
082 00 $a813/.6$222
100 1 $aRussell, Karen,$d1981-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006024155
245 10 $aSt. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves /$cby Karen Russell.
246 3 $aSaint Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2006.
300 $a246 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tAva wrestles the alligator -- $tHaunting Olivia -- $tZ.Z.'s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers -- $tThe Star-Gazer's log of summer-time crime -- $tFrom Children's reminiscences of the westward migration -- $tLady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial Snows -- $tThe city of shells -- $tOut to sea -- $tAccident brief, occurrence # 00/422 -- $tSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.
520 1 $a"In the collection's title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In "Haunting Olivia, " two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab. In "Z.Z.'s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers," a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists...). And "Ava Wrestles the Alligator" introduces the remarkable Bigtree Wrestling Dynasty - Grandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Ava - proprietors of Swamplandia!, the island's #1 Gator Theme Park and Cafe. Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim "Feed the gators, don't talk to strangers." Left to look after seventy incubating alligators and an older sister who may or may not be having sex with a succubus, Ava meets the Bird Man, and learns that when you're a kid it's often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aEverglades (Fla.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103391
852 00 $bglx$hPS3618.U755$iS7 2006