Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories - Karen Russell

Written by Karen Russell
Read by Arthur Morey, Joy Osmanski, Kaleo Griffith, Mark Bramhall, Michael Bybee, Romy Rosemont, Robbie Daymond
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

9h15m

From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best.

In the collection’s marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In “The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979″, a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull’s nest. “Proving Up” and “The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis” - stories of children left to fend for themselves in dire predicaments - find Russell veering into more sinister territory, and ultimately crossing the line into full-scale horror. In “The New Veterans”, a massage therapist working with a tattooed war veteran discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the images on his body. In all, these wondrous new pieces display a young writer of superlative originality and invention coming into the full range and scale of her powers.

Vampires in the lemon grove –
Reeling for the Empire –
Seagull army descends on Strong Beach, 1979 –
Proving up –
Barn at the end of our term –
Dougbert Shackleton’s rules for Antarctic tailgating –
New veterans –
Graveless doll of Eric Mutis –