The Russian Debutante's Handbook: A Novel - Softcover

Shteyngart, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573229881 ISBN 13: 9781573229883

Verlag: Riverhead Books, 2003

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Book by Shteyngart Gary

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Críticas:

"Rowdy, ribald, funny...this superb debut [is] the real thing."--Esquire

"As attuned to the exhilarating possibilities of the language as Martin Amis, as deadpan and funny as the young Evelyn Waugh."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"In Vladimir Girshkin, the wisecracking, lovelorn, desperately self-reinventing protagonist, Shteyngart has given us a literary symbol for this new immigrant age, much as Saul Bellow or Henry Roth did in theirs..."--Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post

"A brilliant, funny debut describing the vicissitudes of immigration today, as experienced by the hero, a young Russian-American."--Harper's Bazaar

"The rampaging narrative is festooned on every page with glittering one-liners, improbably apt similes, and other miniature pleasures."--Elle

"If Henry Miller were Russian, this is a book he might have written."--Time Out New York

"[Gary Shteyngart's] sense of the exploded past and volatile present suffuses this gifted first novel..." --O. Magazine

Reseña del editor:

In a novel about being an outsider in America and what it means to be an American, Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, pursues his dreams of success, wealth, and a girlfriend, as his quest takes him deep into uncharted territory.

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• Verlag: Riverhead Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1573229881
• ISBN 13: 9781573229883
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496