The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
Gary Shteyngart
464 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0747568197
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Language: English
Publish: 1072944000000
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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.