![]() Swamplandia! is ultimately about the aching beauties of youth - the way life begins with such dumb sweetness, while the lessons that give it meaning lurk around each bend like terrifying gators in a mossy fragrant swamp The Economist With Ava she has created a goofy and self-conscious girl who is young enough to hope that all darkness has an answering lightness. Ms Russell has produces a rich and humid world of spirits and dreams, buzzing mosquitoes and prehistoric reptiles, baby-green cocoplums and marsh rabbits, and musty old tomes about heroes and spells. It's a wonderfully extravagant, eccentric story by a brilliant young writer with an amazing imagination Kate Saunders, The Times ![]() I found this novel beautifully written and very witty, yet often extremely sad too I was looking forward to Swamplandia! and I wasn't disappointed. ![]() Her imagination is undoubtedly of unbounded proportions, and she creates a refreshingly unique community and seductively charms the reader. ![]() ![]() Russell leaves just enough for us to question our reading of events, so that when the scales fall from Ava's eyes we are implicated in her naivety London Review of Books Many of her descriptions are quite dazzling GuardianĪ testament to a truly vivid imagination LadyĪva's narrative occupies fertile territory half-way between realism and fantasy, innocence and experience. Is certainly very talented.This novel has already received great reviews.and it's easy to see why. ![]()
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