A short history of tractors in Ukrainian / Marina Lewycka

By:

Lewycka, Marina [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2006Description: 294 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0143036742

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction

DDC classification:

823.92

Summary: With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their father's intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Cubao Branch Reference Section	Women’s Collection	WC 823.92 L678s 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	132554d

With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their father's intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.

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