Russian Debutante's Handbook
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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. There, 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.
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Gary Shteyngart. (2006). Russian Debutante's Handbook. Unabridged Phoenix Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Gary Shteyngart. 2006. Russian Debutante's Handbook. Phoenix Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Gary Shteyngart, Russian Debutante's Handbook. Phoenix Books, Inc, 2006.
MLA Citation (style guide)Gary Shteyngart. Russian Debutante's Handbook. Unabridged Phoenix Books, Inc, 2006.
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GARY SHTEYNGART was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. His debut novel the Russian Debutante's Handbook won the Stephen Crame Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. It was also named a New York TImes Notables Book, a best of the year by the Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly, and one of the best debuts of the year by The Guardian.
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