Pushkin and the Queen of Spades
de Randall, Alice
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/No Jacket as Issued
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. BD6 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with a light mark on the back cover plus some very, light overall rubbing. A novel about a Harvard-educated African-American professor of Russian literature. She has a son who is a famous pro football player that has just become engaged to a Russian émigré lap dancer. In looking for an understanding of what is happening between her and her son and to her son, she revisits her own past and is forced to face it honestly. The author is a winner of the Free Spirit Award and the Literature Award of Excellence by the Memphis Black Writers Conference plus she has been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. By the author of "the Wind Done Gone." 306p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
Sinopsis
Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard-educated African American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian émigré who also happens to be a lap dancer. For Windsor this predicament is no laughing matter. Determined to get to the bottom of it, she embarks on a journey into her own rich past: to her Motown childhood, where the Temptations danced across the stage and love came disguised as a sharply dressed gangster; to Harvard, where she endured the humiliation of being an unwed black teen mother; to St. Petersburg, where the verses of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, great-grandson of an African slave, moved through her head as she made love to her own white Russian. The urge to protect her son has been Windsor’s only goal, but as she draws ever closer to the secret that has cast a shadow over her life, the identity of her son's father, she discovers that the half-lies she has fed her boy don’t add up to the beauty of the truth. Balancing sharp-witted humor with profundity, sexiness with psychological depth, this is an exhilarating ride straight through the racially divided heart of contemporary America , which also probes the universal question of what it means to be a good mother. Pushkin and the Queen of Spades is a provocative, enormously entertaining novel that will change the landscape of literary fiction.
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- Título
- Pushkin and the Queen of Spades
- Autor
- Randall, Alice
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket as Issued
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
- Palabras clave
- Fiction Literary Fiction Literary Novel ARC Advance Reading Copy Uncorrected Proof African-American Professor African American Professor Russian Literature Mother Son Relationships Fiance Lap Dancer Lap Dancers Childhood Unwed Mother Pushkin Alexander ARC
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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