Sorokin Vladimir - The Queue - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Queue
Author(s): Sorokin Vladimir
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590172742
Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2008
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction