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The Russian Debutante's Handbook

The Russian Debutante's Handbook( )
Author: Shteyngart, Gary
Narrated by: Grupper, Adam
ISBN:978-1-4640-2288-3
Publication Date:Mar 2012
Publisher:Recorded Books, Inc.
Book Format:Downloadable audio file
List Price:USD $109.00
Book Description:

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

Author Biography
Shteyngart, Gary (Author)
Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad, which is now St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1972. He moved to the United States seven years later with his family. He received a bachelor's degree in politics from Oberlin College in Ohio and an MFA in creative writing from City University of New York. His debut novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His other works include Absurdistan, Super Sad True Love Story, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and Little Failure: A Memoir. He has taught writing at Hunter College, Columbia University, and Princeton University.

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