The Russian Girl
Award-winning writer Kingsley Amis’s newest novel is a dazzling romp through a territory he has made triumphantly his own–the battle of the sexes and the conflicting claims of love and integrity. Art, literature, political correctness, and the gender war all come under Amis’s seasoned scalpel in this corrosively funny academic satire.
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Alina a Russian Girl Comes to Israel: A Russian Girl Comes to Israel
A young girl who has recently come to Israel from Russia with her family misses her old home and feels out of place in her new country.
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Amis crafts a timely story of post cold war social comment.,
Not content to limit himself to his usual playgrounds of lampooning modern English society and exacerbating the battle of the sexes, Amis shows off a scholarly appreciation of the differences, once shrouded by the iron curtain, between conservative and corrupt post-Soviet Russian society and the Western world. In a very readable yarn Amis does all this without bogging down in heavy moralization. The story of the romance between a bookish British professor of Russian and a young Russian Poet in the west for the first time is entertaining, sharp, witty, and wise. This is Amis the writer as a mature sophisticate who manages to keep his erudition in check.
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|Another good one,
Well-written, entertaining, and a bit surprising. I’ve read almost all of his novels … most are good, a few are great, a couple are marginal. This is a good one. It is not at all obvious that the hero is better off at the end than at the beginning. Thinking is required of the reader so if that isn’t your thing, don’t bother.
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