The Russian Debutante's Handbook

The Russian Debutante's Handbook

by Gary Shteyngart (Author)

Synopsis

Vladimir is a young Russian-American immigrant whose capitalist dreams and desire for a girlfriend lead him off the straight and narrow into uncharted territory. From the dreary confines of New York City's Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava - the Eastern European Paris of the nineties - whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot, The Russian Debutante's Handbook is a hilarious, extravagant, yet uncannily true to life adventure. It is also a serious look at what it means to be an outsider in America and what it means to be an American.

$5.59

Save:$7.03 (56%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 19 May 2003

ISBN 10: 0747561028
ISBN 13: 9780747561026
Book Overview: Pacy, ingenious and atmospheric, THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE'S HANDBOOK illuminates the American-Jewish tradition with a contemporary swing. 'Here is prose so sparkling and ebullient, and possessed of a vital and far-ranging intelligence that I thought immediately of writers like Bellow and Nabokov and Malamud surprising and challenging' Chang-rae Lee, author of A GESTURE LIFE

Author Bio
Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. He lives in New York City.