The Russian Debutante's Handbook

Name: The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Gary Shteyngart
ISBN: 9781464029028

Author: Gary Shteyngart

Narrator: Adam Grupper

Unabridged: 15 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/09/2012

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Best-selling author Gary Shteyngart's exquisite fiction is met with a level of critical acclaim reserved for the very best in the field. In this startlingly provocative work, Russian immigrant Vladimir Girshkin searches for love and self-identity while interacting with a quirky set of acquaintances. "No novelist thinks more globally than Gary Shteyngart . [He] has figured out how to be funny and appalling at the same time, often in the same sentence."-Baltimore Sun

About Gary Shteyngart

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 (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Absurdistan, and The Russian Debutanteâ€™s Handbook (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction). His books regularly appear on best-of lists around the world and have been published in thirty countries.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Antof9

From the back of the book: "Breezily hilarious." -New York Magazine "Blisteringly funny." -Salon.com "Remarkable." -New York Observer "As funny and wicked as Waugh." -Time "Brilliant." -Harper's Bazaar "Terrifically charming." -Vanity Fair "A wholly original delight." -Entertainment Weekly "Energetic, sparkling." -......more

Goodreads review by Karen

I loved the language in this book - the weird, fresh phrases and the author's obvious fascination with English words, their sound and their usage. This seems to be a common thread in books by smart Russian/Eastern European men writing in English, though I haven't read enough of these authors to make......more

Goodreads review by Mark

This book was a hoot. Shteyngart has a wonderful sense of the absurd, and his penchant for eccentric characters is the main selling point of this romp in New York and an Eastern European city that has all the chaotic vibrancy and despair of any city emerging from behind the Iron Curtain. Well worth......more