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Olga Grushin's astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores--really, colonizes--the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. Vaulting effortlessly from the real to the surreal and from privilege to paranoia, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is a darkly funny, demonically entertaining novel.
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Ironic, surreal, sometimes stunning and always chaotic . . . Gogolesque in its sardonic humor. (The New York Times) The Dream Life of Sukhanov will tower over the majority of what publishers put out this year. (New York) Steeped in the tradition of Gogol, Bulgakov, and Nabokov, Grushin is clearly a writer of large and original talent. (James Lasdun) Grushin has imagined both Sukhanov's carefully managed life and his richly troubling personal history with a detailed intensity that fruitfully echoes Solzhenitsyn's best books, Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) The next big thing in American literary fiction . . . so accomplished are her skills--so hauntingly assured--that more than one US critic has greeted her as the next great American novelist. (Financial Times) Harks back to the great Russian masters [and] breathes new life into American literary fiction. (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World)
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'The Dream Life of Sukhanov' has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers.
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- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0143038400
- ISBN 13 9780143038405
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