- Fiction, Businesspeople, Fiction, general, Russia (federation), fiction
Former bureaucrat Max Borodin is one of Moscow's most successful businessmen. He strolls through the wreckage of today's Russia with ease - convincing people to do his bidding, providing its citizens (both friends and clients) with the luxury goods they covet, and generally leading a prosperous and satisfying existence.
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Cool, classical in form, contemporary and ironic.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Jack Womack
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 310
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Flamingo, Atlantic Monthly Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780871136275
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