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Highlights
- Windsor Armstrong has a problem: her brilliant boy, Pushkin X, has become a football superstar and is planning to marry a Russian lap dancer.
- Author(s): Alice Randall
- 282 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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About the Book
Balancing sharp-witted humor with profundity, sexiness with psychological depth, this exhilarating ride through the racially divided heart of contemporary America probes the universal question of what it means to be a good mother.Book Synopsis
Windsor Armstrong has a problem: her brilliant boy, Pushkin X, has become a football superstar and is planning to marry a Russian lap dancer. In Windsor's opinion, Pushkin is throwing away every good thing she has given him. When she was an unwed teen mother, Windsor attended Harvard, leaving her shady Detroit roots behind. She raised her son to be fiercely intelligent, well-spoken, and proud. Now he lives for pro football and a white woman of no account. Outraged by her son's decisions but devoted to loving him right, Windsor prepares to give up her last secret: the identity of Pushkin's father.
Review Quotes
"An utterly different, impressively original novel of ideas." --Ben Dickinson Elle
"Her Margaret Mitchell parody kicked up a firestorm. Now she returns with a bold new novel." --Troy Patterson Entertainment Weekly "Randall lays bare racism and class consciousness (both black and white) with ruthless wit and riveting style." --Cathleen Medwick O, The Oprah Magazine "[Alice Randall's] new novel is an impassioned aria . . . stunningly gutsy, literate and original." --Heller McAlpin Los Angeles Times "Linguistically exuberant . . . The heart of the tale is in the lyricism of the telling." --Darryl Lorenzo Wellington The Washington Post "Randall is a marvelous writer. . . . Pushkin and the Queen of Spades is a perfect book-club selection." --Rebecca L. Ford The Chicago Tribune "Randall's novel is encyclopedic in its forms, stories, and range of emotions. . . . [Her] characters live and tell amazing stories." --Mary A. McCay, chairwoman of the Loyola University English department, The Times-Picayune "Unyielding in its intensity. . . . this is intentionally provocative stuff, designed to open your eyes and make your heart burn." --Barbara Lloyd McMichael Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer --Dimensions (Overall): 8.82 Inches (H) x 5.58 Inches (W) x .78 Inches (D)
Weight: .8 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 282
Publisher: Amistad Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Alice Randall
Language: English
Street Date: May 2, 2005
TCIN: 90954188
UPC: 9780618562053
Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-6061
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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