The Russian Debutante's Handbook : A Novel by Shteyngart, Gary - 2002
by Shteyngart, Gary
The Russian Debutante's Handbook : A Novel
by Shteyngart, Gary
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2002. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Green boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. 452pps. There are a few faint soilmarks to the page-edges, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No inscriptions. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has touches of crinkling at the extremities; the original price (24.95) is intact. A nice copy of the author's acclaimed first novel.
"Vladimir Girshkin -- twenty-five-year-old Russian immigrant, 'Little Failure' according to his high-achieving mother, unhappy lover to fat dungeon mistress Challah (his 'little Challah bread'), and lowly clerk at the bureaucratic Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society -- is about to have his first break. When the unlikely figure of a wealthy but psychotic old Russian war hero appears and introduces Vladimir to his best friend, who just happens to be a small electric fan, Vladimir has little inkling that he is about to embark on an adventure of unrelenting lunacy -- one that overturns his assumptions about what it means to be an immigrant in America. 'The Russian Debutante's Handbook' takes us from New York City's Lower East Side to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava -- the Eastern European Paris of the '90s -- whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot. There, with the encouragement of the Groundhog, a murderous (but fun-loving) Russian mafioso, Vladimir infiltrates the American ex-pat community with the hope of defrauding his young middle-class compatriots by launching a pyramid scheme that's as stupid as it is brilliant. Things go swimmingly at first, but nothing is quite as it seems in Prava, and Vladimir learns that in order to reinvent himself, he must first discover who he really is.
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- Place of Publication New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published 2002
- Keywords GARY SHTEYNGART THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE S HANDBOOK FIRST EDITIONS AMERICAN FICTION LITERATURE NEW YORK CITY 1990S PRAVA COLLECTIBLE BOOKS NOVELS
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