The book certainly abounds in clever and striking images: alligators have "icicle overbites" and Hilola's children "watch her sink into her own face" as she dies of cancer Anthony Cummins, Metro Russell's primeval imaginings and gutsy language lurk long in the memory Emma Hagestadt, Independent Russell is really finding her feet with this one, making good on the promise of her eerie debut Alastair Mabbott, Herald Russell details peculiarities about the alligators (known as Seths) to fascinating effect and skillfully satirizes the greed and fraudulence of entertainment corporations Sunita Soliar, Times Literary Supplement What comes through most powerfully in Russell's fertile prose is the humid, mosquito-ridden atmosphere of the Florida swamp and the beguiling strangeness of the creatures - humans included - that make it their home Killian Fox, Observer Russell creats a vivid sense of how reality and fantasy can intertwine in a child's mind and become indistinguishable. On one level, this is a sweet, slightly sentimental comin-of-age story on another, it is a postmodern satire Scarlett Thomas, Guardian 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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