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A short history of tractors in Ukrainian / Marina Lewycka

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2006Description: 294 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0143036742
Subject(s): Genre/Form: 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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Book Book Cubao Branch Reference Section Women’s Collection WC 823.92 L678s 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 132554d
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WC 823.7 Sh545m 1988 Mary Shelley : her life, her fiction, her monsters WC 823.914 B845t 1999 Too many men WC 823.914 K24d 1984 Devoted ladies WC 823.92 L678s 2006 A short history of tractors in Ukrainian WC 824.2 Sc428r 1999 The red heart WC 828.307 T276 1988 Telling ways : Australian women's experimental writing WC 891.8336 D763f 2008 Frida's bed : a novel

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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