Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Russian Girl

3.2/5 ( ratings)

"Sex, booze, and Russian intrigue . . . A cool cocktail mixed with parts of Updike and De Vries, with a peel of le Carr�."--The New York Times Book Review

Richard Vaisey is a respected scholar specializing in Russian studies when Anna Danilova arrives on campus. A visiting Russian poet with a mission more than literary, Anna challenges his integrity--and his marriage. Richard's beautiful but unspeakably monstrous wife, Cordelia, seeks revenge on her adulterous husband, determined to ruin him by canceling his credit cards and reporting his car as stolen to the police. But Richard must face even further humiliating consequences, for the seductive Anna is also an irremediably bad poet.

The Russian Girl is vintage Kingsley Amis: entertaining, thought-provoking, and wittily wise.

"A brilliant satire . . . Kingsley Amis can skewer the modern world like no other writer."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Genuinely entertaining, and corrosively funny . . . Amis's work is the result of beautifully organized and polished craftsmanship."--The New York Review of Books

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: May 01, 1995

ISBN: 0140251723

ISBN 13: 9780140251722

The Russian Girl

3.2/5 ( ratings)

"Sex, booze, and Russian intrigue . . . A cool cocktail mixed with parts of Updike and De Vries, with a peel of le Carr�."--The New York Times Book Review

Richard Vaisey is a respected scholar specializing in Russian studies when Anna Danilova arrives on campus. A visiting Russian poet with a mission more than literary, Anna challenges his integrity--and his marriage. Richard's beautiful but unspeakably monstrous wife, Cordelia, seeks revenge on her adulterous husband, determined to ruin him by canceling his credit cards and reporting his car as stolen to the police. But Richard must face even further humiliating consequences, for the seductive Anna is also an irremediably bad poet.

The Russian Girl is vintage Kingsley Amis: entertaining, thought-provoking, and wittily wise.

"A brilliant satire . . . Kingsley Amis can skewer the modern world like no other writer."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Genuinely entertaining, and corrosively funny . . . Amis's work is the result of beautifully organized and polished craftsmanship."--The New York Review of Books

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: May 01, 1995

ISBN: 0140251723

ISBN 13: 9780140251722

More books from Kingsley Amis

The Old Devils

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Green Man

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Alteration

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Everyday Drinking

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Lucky Jim

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Take a Girl Like You

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Girl, 20

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Ending Up

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Stanley and the Women

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Difficulties with Girls

3.1/5 ( ratings)

The Green Man

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Colonel Sun

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Crime of the Century

2.4/5 ( ratings)

One Fat Englishman

3.3/5 ( ratings)

New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Russian Hide and Seek

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Spectrum V

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Jake's Thing (Vintage Blue Book 4)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?