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Item Information
Catalog Record
Swamplandia!
Russell, Karen, 1981-
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Alfred A. Knopf, |
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2011. |
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315 p. ; |
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9780307263995 |
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6 copies available at Corning - Southeast Steuben County Library, Hammondsport - Fred and Harriett Taylor Memorial Library, Horseheads Branch, Montour Falls Memorial Library, Wellsville - David A. Howe Public Library, and West Elmira Library.
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Swamplandia!
Russell, Karen, 1981-
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am2a
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key
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ocn613432205
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Data source
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OCoLC
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Fixed field data
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100902s2011 nyu e 000 1 eng
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LCCN
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2010036708
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ISBN
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9780307263995 : $24.95
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ISBN
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0307263991
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ISBN
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9780307276681 (pbk.)
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ISBN
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0307276686 (pbk.)
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Cataloging Source
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DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP NSB IEB
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Geographic Area Code
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n-us-fl
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LC Call Number
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PS3618.U755 S93 2011
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Dewey Decimal Classification Number
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813/.6 22
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Personal Author
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Russell, Karen, 1981-
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Title
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Swamplandia! / Karen Russell.
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Publication info
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
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Projected pub date
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1102
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Physical description
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315 p. ; 25 cm.
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Content Type
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text txt
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337
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unmediated n rdamedia
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338
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volume nc rdacarrier
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General Note
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Details may vary.
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Summary
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Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava's father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety eight gators as well as her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking.
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Held by
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CORNING HAMMONDSPT HORSEHEADS MONTOURFLS WELLSVILLE WESTELMIRA
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Subject term
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Girls--Fiction.
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Subject term
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Mothers--Death--Fiction.
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Subject term
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Motherless families--Fiction.
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Subject term
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Amusement parks--Fiction.
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Subject term
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Alligators--Fiction.
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Geographic term
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Everglades (Fla.)--Fiction.
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Geographic term
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Ten Thousand Islands (Fla.)--Fiction.
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Genre index term
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Fantasy fiction.
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