The Russian Debutante's Handbook
by Gary Shteyngart
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Author: Gary ShteyngartEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2002-06
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 452
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
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I fell in love from the start: wry, wicked wit combined with a gift for effortless description made this novel a joy to read.This is a satire with a cruel, self-obsessed character called Vladimir Girshkin in pursuit of sex and riches whose quest takes him from a keenly observed New York across the Atlantic to a mythical eastern European land full of the youthful detritus of the West and moribund relics of the Soviet era.The prose is refreshing and ebullient, infused with a rich, panoramic intelligence that can swoop on the minutest detail to make a telling point about American excesses and foibles. I was often left reeling in admiration. At times the oblique, knowing authorial intrusions are reminiscent of Nabokov, but this is neither pastiche nor imitation. The cruelty of the wit harks back to writers like Saltykov-Shchedrin or more recently Bulgakov so Shteyngart is in impressive company. Above all it is funny without compromising its serious intent.
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