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008 010918s2002 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2001047676
020 $a1573222135 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm48038426
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050 00 $aPS3619.H79$bR87 2002
082 00 $a813/.6$221
100 1 $aShteyngart, Gary,$d1972-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001043438
245 14 $aThe Russian debutante's handbook /$cGary Shteyngart.
260 $aNew York :$bRiverhead Books,$c2002.
300 $a452 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Vladimir Girshkin - twenty-five-year-old Russian immigrant, "Little Failure" according to his high-achieving mother, unhappy lover to fat dungeon mistress Challah (his "little Challah bread"), and lowly clerk at the bureaucratic Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society - is about to have his first break.
520 8 $aWhen the unlikely figure of a wealthy but psychotic old Russian war hero appears and introduces Vladimir to his best friend, who just happens to be a small electric fan, Vladimir has little inkling that he is about to embark on an adventure of unrelenting lunacy - one that overturns his assumptions about what it means to be an immigrant in America.".
520 8 $a"The Russian Debutante's Handbook takes us from New York City's Lower East Side to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava - the Eastern European Paris of the '90s - whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot.
520 8 $aThere, with the encouragement of the Groundhog, a murderous (but fun-loving) Russian mafioso, Vladimir infiltrates the American ex-pat community with the hope of defrauding his young middle-class compatriots by launching a pyramid scheme that's as stupid as it is brilliant. Things go swimmingly at first, but nothing is quite as it seems in Prava, and Vladimir learns that in order to reinvent himself, he must first discover who he really is."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aRussian American fiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005006851
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108377
650 0 $aImmigrants$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104248
650 0 $aYoung men$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114024
655 7 $aBildungsromans.$2gsafd
852 00 $bglx$hPS3619.H79$iR87 2002