Orange World and Other Stories
Written by Karen Russell
Narrated by Emily Rankin, Arthur Morey, Mhairi Morrison and
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About this audiobook
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In “Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a 2,000-year-old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors”, two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void — yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Stories:
- “The Prospectors” read by Emily Rankin
- “The Bad Graft” read by Arthur Morey
- “Bog Girl: A Romance” read by Mhairi Morrison
- “Madame Bovary’s Greyhound” read by Cassandra Campbell
- “The Tornado Auction” read by Mark Bramhall
- “Black Corfu” read by Dominic Hoffman
- “The Gondoliers” read by Bahni Turpin
- “Orange World” read by Rebecca Lowman
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Karen Russell is an extraordinary writer. This is another masterpiece.