See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. This collection is altogether enchanting with a light se. 2020w26 2020w26-startpage w26-startpage-customer-service. This collection was almost everything I hoped it would be. Orange World and Other Stories is a collection hovering on the threshold between horror and comedy, between the phantasmagoric and the fleshly. startpage startpage-3-column startpage-product-care. I thought her two earlier collections were more interesting, with more charm and magic. Furthermore, despite their surreal nature, Russell grounds each story in human experience, both poignant and hilarious in turn. We’d love your help. The first three stories were my favorite, as they were prime examples of her doing what she does best: taking what starts out to appear as normal society and adding more and more weirdness almost to the brink of absurdity and then reeling it back a little. Orange World and Other Stories (Hardcover) By Karen Russell. “The Bog Girl,” for instance, wouldn’t have worked as well as it did if all the surrounding characters in the story didn’t act as if it was completely normal that this high school boy was carrying around his centuries old frozen girlfriend. They were all great, but The Tornado Auction was definitely my favorite: that one will stick with me for a long time. Orange World and Other Stories - Black Corfu Summary & Analysis Karen Russell This Study Guide consists of approximately 52 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Orange World and Other Stories. Her words resonate in the strangest of ways, that take me a good bit to truly digest. Please try again. Her writing is particular and alive. It went too long, though, and eventually got too confusing. The feeling that Karen Russell generates in me through these stories is a feeling I want to live in forever. I was so excited to get my hands on this title after reading a glowing and intriguing review in the last Sunday's paper from Emily St. John Mandel (the author of "Station Eleven.") Suiting the poor baby up like a marshmallow at 5 A.M. Jerking on a hat, mittens. These stories, as different as they are from each other, share a common element. Karen Russell graduated from Columbia University's MFA program in 2006. Orange World is a collection of eight short stories. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. “The Bad Graft” was amazingly inventive, but when I started reading “The Gondoliers,” a dystopian Florida story, I was sure it was going to be my favorite. 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. The first three stories were my favorite, as they were prime examples of her doing what she does best: taking what starts out to appear as normal society and adding more and more weirdness almost to the brink of absurdity and then reeling it back a little. I am so in love with this book. Unable to add item to List. Not every short story is going to appeal in any collection, but this one retained my attention and intrigue throughout. Vampires in the Lemon Grove: And Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries), St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Vintage Contemporaries), The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner), "Russell creates fully realized worlds. This is particularly true of her new and deftly chimeric collection, Orange World and Other Stories. 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