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The Queue

The Queue

Sorokin, Vladimir
Sorokin, Vladimir
Laird, Sally

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1590172744
ISBN13: 9781590172742
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Aug 1 2008
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.02 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
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. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? Turkish, Swedish, maybe even American? It doesn't matter-if anything is on sale, you better line up to buy it. Sorokin's tour de force of ventriloquism and formal daring tells the whole story in snatches of unattributed dialogue, adding up to nothing less than the real voice of the people, overheard on the street as they joke and curse, fall in and out of love, slurp down ice cream or vodka, fill out crossword puzzles, even go to sleep and line up again in the morning as the queue drags on.

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