- Social conditions, Consumer behavior, Fiction, Fiction, humorous
"Vladimir Sorokin’s first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet “years of stagnation.” Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying.
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Cool, prestige, comic and contemplative.
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Vladimir Sorokin
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 259
- Publisher
- Ad Marginem, Sorokin, Vladimir/ Laird, Sally (TRN), Readers International
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780930523442
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