The Russian Debutante's Handbook
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747568193 (0747568197)
Publish date: May 17th 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Russia,
New York
I'm trying to decide whether to keep trying to slog through this book over the course of months or to give up on it all together. I'm on about page 70. I tell myself I'll read at least 100-150 pages before I give up on it completely.Reading this book is like being at a party where you're the only on...
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