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Gorsky

Gorsky

by VesnaGoldsworthy (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

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Synopsis

Book at Bedtime on Radio 4. Written with such narrative elegance that you're led irresistibly on, as with some exquisite dish, from one perfect melting mouthful to the next. (Michael Frayn). London dances to the tune of Gorsky's billions. The most enigmatic of oligarchs, Gorsky has been led to the city by his love for Natalia, whom he first knew in Russia. That she is now married to an Englishman is an inconvenient detail. Gorsky desires and gets the best of everything. His mansion by the Thames is set to make Buckingham Palace look like an ungainly box by a roundabout. At its heart will be a grand library, denoting taste and breeding. Now he just needs the books. When Gorsky's armour-plated car halts in front of a down-at-heel bookshop, the startled young man behind the till receives the commission of a lifetime. The bookseller suddenly gains privileged access to the wealthy and the beautiful; a world filled with delectable books but fraught with danger...

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 09 Apr 2015
ISBN 10: 1784740098
ISBN 13: 9781784740092
Book Overview: It was a piece of business that comes along once in a lifetime. If you are lucky. A captivating tale of big money, Russian beauty and good books.

Media Reviews
Evocative, captivating and acutely observed -- Patricia Nicol Sunday Times Clever... entertaining... elegant -- Rose Wild The Times It's surprising there haven't been more novels drawing on London's fascination with Russian oligarchs. But how to write about them without it all seeming a bit Jackie Collins? Vesna Goldsworthy has hit on the perfect solution with her witty novel Gorsky -- Viv Groskop Spectator This is the most enjoyable fiction I've come across this year. Gorsky is engaging and, best of all...manages to cast London in a new and softer light. I defy anyone who revelled in Fitzgerald's original not to have fun with Goldsworthy's attempt to transpose arguably the greatest American novel back to the old world -- Peter Carty Financial Times Written with such narrative elegance that you're led irresistibly on, as with some exquisite dish, from one perfect melting mouthful to the next Michael Frayn Entertaining and poignant, ironic and serious, Gorsky is both a literary homage and the work of a highly original imagination. Goldsworthy is brilliant on money, clothes. romantic love and decadent sex -- and on various kinds of immigrant species. A jeu d'esprit with a heart and mind. Eva Hoffman Here, at last, is the 'Gatsby' for today's London - the holy city of the Russian super-rich. In a marvellously written, wickedly imagined novel, sometimes hauntingly sad and sometimes very funny, Vesna Goldsworthy evokes the loneliness which goes with sudden and gigantic wealth, as it falls upon men and women with no previous background of privilege. 'Gorsky' provides a crowded satire on the mob of hangers-on who follow the billionaires, and a clear-eyed panorama of Kensington and Chelsea as new money floods over old dignity. Neal Ascherson The spell-binding story of a Russian billionaire setting up home in London's 'Chelski'. With wit and poetic verve, Vesna Goldsworthy explores our fascination with money, glamour, parties and sex and, ultimately, offers a haunting elegy to love Sofka Zinovieff There's no mistaking F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the inspiration behind Vesna Goldsworthy's glittering, glamorous novel -- Eithne Farry Sunday Express, S Magazine It's a clever, telling story asking questions about love, power, beauty and books. Where better to find love than among the shelves of a dusty bookshop? -- Patrick Neale Bookseller Her sharp observation of London's super-rich...is an unexpected and elegant bonus in this retelling of a classic story The Times Its charm lies in its literary and historical adornments -- John Owen Country & Town House I was swept up in the characters and the setting of this brilliant book and hope that it will become a classic -- Charlotte Courthold Mature Times
Author Bio
Vesna Goldsworthy was born in Belgrade in 1961 and has lived in London since 1986. She writes in English, her third language. She has authored three widely translated books: a memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries; Inventing Ruritania, on the shaping of cultural perceptions of the Balkans; and the Crashaw Prize-winning poetry collection, The Angel of Salonika. Gorsky is her first novel.