The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart

The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart

NAMED ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS

A visionary novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Little Failure.

The Russian Debutante's Handbook introduces Vladimir Girshkin, one of the most original and unlikely heroes of recent times. The twenty-five-year-old unhappy lover to a fat dungeon mistress, affectionately nicknamed "Little Failure" by his high-achieving mother, Vladimir toils his days away as a lowly clerk at the bureaucratic Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society. When a wealthy but psychotic old Russian war hero appears, Vladimir embarks on an adventure of unrelenting lunacy that takes us from New York's Lower East Side to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava--the Eastern European Paris of the nineties. With the help of a murderous but fun-loving Russian mafioso, Vladimir infiltrates the Prava expat community and launches a scheme as ridiculous as it is brilliant.

Bursting with wit, humor, and rare insight, The Russian Debutante's Handbook is both a highly imaginative romp and a serious exploration of what it means to be an immigrant in America.

Gary Shteyngart is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and the novels Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, and The Russian Debutante's Handbook (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction). His works have been published in thirty countries and have consistently appeared on best-of lists around the world.

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ISBN 13	9781573229883
ISBN 10	1573229881
Title	The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Author	Gary Shteyngart
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2003-04-29
Number of pages	496
Prizes	Winner of ALA Notable Book., Winner of BOMC Stephen Crane Award., Winner of Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award., Winner of Entertainment Weekly's Best Book., Winner of National Jewish Book Award., Winner of New York Times Notable Book., Winner of Washington Post Best Book of the Year.
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