Gorsky
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"An impressively accomplished retelling of the Gatsby story," in which a Russian businessman engages an impoverished bookseller's help pursuing a lover. (Los Angeles Review of Books) On a rainy afternoon in London's old Chelsea, a charming multi-billionaire Russian oligarch, Gorsky, walks into an ailing bookshop and writes the first of several quarter-of-a-million pound checks. With that money, Gorsky has tasked Nikola, the store's bored and brilliant clerk, with sourcing books for a massive personal library, which will be housed in the magnificent, palatial home Gorsky happens to be building immediately next to Nikola's own modest dwelling. Gorsky needs a tasteful collection of Russian literature to woo a long-lost love―no matter that she happens to be married to an Englishman. His passion for her surpasses even his immeasurable wealth, and Nikola will be drawn into a world of opulence, greed, capitalism, sex, and beauty as he helps Gorsky pursue this doomed love. "An accomplished retelling of an American classic." -Tablet "It's a very clever idea: to update "The Great Gatsby" by making the bootlegger into a Russian arms-dealing billionaire and transplanting the action from Jazz Age New York to 21st-century London, a city increasingly shaped by global wealth." -The New York Times Book Review "A tense, witty page-turner." -The Spectator "Entertaining." -New York Journal of Books "[A] kind of novel-length love letter to the written word." -Jewish Book Council
Goldsworthy, V. (2015). Gorsky. [United States], ABRAMS, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Goldsworthy, Vesna. 2015. Gorsky. [United States], ABRAMS, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Goldsworthy, Vesna, Gorsky. [United States], ABRAMS, Inc, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Goldsworthy, Vesna. Gorsky. [United States], ABRAMS, Inc, 2015.
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