The Russian Girl
ISBN 0091745365 | |
The Russian Girl is a 1992 comedy novel by
Plot
Set in the early nineties the novel describes in comic detail events set in train by the arrival in London of Russian poet Anna Danilova. Richard Vaisey, Anna's sponsor and soon-to-be lover is a middle-aged academic, a professor of Slavonic studies not so happily married to wife Cordelia. Anna's youth and charm is what attracts Richard, not her poetry which he regards as doggerel. Anna attempts to portray her would-be oligarch brother, in legal trouble in Russia, as a dissident in order to elicit support from the London literati. Comedy of course ensues in Cordelia's response to Richard's infatuation and in the interaction of the latter with other minor characters.
Reception
The novel was in general very favourably reviewed. The
References
- ^ New York Times (15 May 1994). "A Little Sex, a Little Dostoyevsky". The New York Times.
- ^ "Blast, We Forgot the Sisters Karamazov : Kingsley Amis can skewer the modern world like no other writer". www.latimes.com. 12 June 1994.
- ^ Kirkus Reviews. "The Russian Girl". www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ Publishers Weekly (May 1994). "The Russian Girl". www.publishersweekly.com.