The story opens on a rather tragic note with the Bigtree family in the midst of suffering all manner of troubles: their clan head, Sawtooth. Karen Russell’s Swamplandia to be Adapted into HBO Series (readersread. The novel chronicles the lives of the members of the Bigtree family, a clan of ‘gator wrestlers that own and operate Swamplandia a fictional alligator farm cum theme park located in Florida.‘Swamplandia!’ by Karen Russell: review ().Swamplandia! was just optioned by HBO for a half hour series produced by Scott Rudin, who worked on The Social Network feature film. Producer Scott Rudin will lead the project.
Russell was recently named the recipient of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring 2012, she is currently writer-in-residence at Bard College in upstate New York. HBO has approved a half-hour comedy project based on Karen Russell‘s critically acclaimed novel, Swamplandia. To reveal more would be to rob the reader of the experience of getting to know the BigTree family, each of them vivid and exuberantly rendered characters set in an equally vivid and exuberant story. Swamplandia! is a rundown tourist attraction in the Everglades of Florida, owned by a clan of alligator wrestlers. Recipient of the National Book Foundations 5 Under 35 Award featured in The New Yorker’s list of “20 under 40 Authors to Watch” nominated for the Orange Prize, Karen Russell’s stellar talent leaves others breathless in her wake. The accolades for this debut novel catapulted it to the top of bestseller lists from coast to coast. Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!, is the final author in The Thurber House’s Evenings with Authors Fall series:
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