The Russian Debutante's Handbook
By Gary Shteyngart
By Gary Shteyngart
By Gary Shteyngart
By Gary Shteyngart
Category: Literary Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction
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$16.00
Apr 29, 2003 | ISBN 9781573229883
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Apr 29, 2003 | ISBN 9781101218525
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Praise
"Rowdy, ribald, funny…this superb debut [is] the real thing."—Esquire
"As attuned to the exhilarating possibilities of the language as Martin Amis, as deadpan and funny as the young Evelyn Waugh."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"In Vladimir Girshkin, the wisecracking, lovelorn, desperately self-reinventing protagonist, Shteyngart has given us a literary symbol for this new immigrant age, much as Saul Bellow or Henry Roth did in theirs…"—Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post
"A brilliant, funny debut describing the vicissitudes of immigration today, as experienced by the hero, a young Russian-American."—Harper’s Bazaar
"The rampaging narrative is festooned on every page with glittering one-liners, improbably apt similes, and other miniature pleasures."—Elle
"If Henry Miller were Russian, this is a book he might have written."—Time Out New York
"[Gary Shteyngart’s] sense of the exploded past and volatile present suffuses this gifted first novel…" —O. Magazine
Awards
ALA Notable Book WINNER
BOMC Stephen Crane Award WINNER
Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award WINNER
Entertainment Weekly’s Best Book WINNER
National Jewish Book Award WINNER
New York Times Notable Book WINNER
Washington Post Best Book of the Year WINNER
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