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Emmanuel Carrere and Linda Coverdale - My Life As a Russian Novel

Metropolitan Books 2010 Hardback, 276pp. In this memoir, acclaimed French novelist CarreĢ€re turns his critical eye on himself, recounting a disappointing documentary-film endeavor and a deteriorating romance. The discovery of a Hungarian prisoner of war brings CarreĢ€re to the tiny post-Soviet town of Kotelnich, but the dead-end story crushes his hopes for an interesting film project. Though rural Kotelnich is hopelessly dull, CarreĢ€re decides to stay. He'll cover the town's poor, hard-working residents, including a bodybuilder who helps reform wayward young men and a local girl aspiring to be the next Britney Spears. More important, he'll look into the mysterious disappearance of his Russian grandfather. Hand-in-hand in this torturous Russian saga is CarreĢ€re's romantic crisis with fiancée Sophie, a young woman in love with the author but so cowed by his moods and self-absorption that she took another lover and lied outrageously about it, compounding CarreĢ€re's emotional paranoia. DJ. (ISBN: 9780805087550). Very Good.
NZD 15.50 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 9.34 | £UK 7 | JP„ 1373] Book number 1489054

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