Let’s Put the Future Behind Us - Brossura

Womack, Jack

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0002255626 ISBN 13: 9780002255622

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 1997

Riassunto

Jimmy Goode is a good southern boy who, at some point in the Cold War, defected to the Soviet Union to become "the Russian Elvis" - or sometimes "the Red Sinatra". Now he has disappeared. Carla Mayhew is determined to find him and write the definitive article about him.

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L'autore

Jack Womack is the author of six novels, among them ‘Random Acts of Senseless Violence’ which received widespread critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. When not writing he occupies himself smoking, shopping, smoking, reading, drinking and smoking. If he’s not doing any of these things, it’s quite possible that he’s asleep, or in Russia, whichever seems more necessary at the time.

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”WE CAN PROVE KENNEDY SHOT HIMSELF – AS LONG AS WE’RE PAID IN ADVANCE”

In the unfettered freedom of Russia’s new found venture capital frenzy, Max Borodin can organise anything – so long as the readies are ready. That’s why he’s Moscow’s most successful businessman.

But Max’s life has its downside: his wife, Tanya, nags him, his mistress, Sonya, exhausts him; his brother Evgeny needs him – to help extricate him from yet another shady business fiasco. Then there are always the country’s friendly mafia, keen to lend a helping hand with the profits of Max’s Universal Manufacturing Company – producer of documents, historical and otherwise, to suit every conceivable occasion.

Satire rarely comes more sulphuric than this. 'Let’s Put the Future Behind Us' is the wittiest job of fictional surgery on New Russia since it iron curtain was amputated.

” Extraordinary ... fierce and fiery prose ... If it’s material for a novel you’re looking for, Russia is where it’s at”
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

”Womack’s neon prose is enough to light up a world gone dark and mad”
THE TIMES

”I don’t expect to read a funnier, more profound book this year, and you shouldn’t either”
TIME OUT

”Bitter, vitriolically funny satire ... a chilling peal of laughter in the dark”
GLASGOW HERALD

“ Womack, simply the coolest writer of his generation”
NORTHERN ECHO

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0002255626
• ISBN 13: 9780002255622
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320