· A TERRIBLE COUNTRY By Keith Gessen pp. Viking. $26 When I was an undergraduate, I took a poetry class with a well-known poet. We met during his office hours to discuss a poem I’d turned in Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. A Terrible Country is the first novel in ten years from n+1 founding editor Keith Gessen. Faced with dismal academic job prospects and a withering personal life, Andrei leaves New York to spend the summer in Moscow to care for his elderly grandmother (and to collect her tales of Stalinist Russia—a research topic that might finally get him a job). But when Andrei arrives, he finds his grandmother’s . “Keith Gessen’s dark, brilliant, drily hilarious new novel A Terrible Country, is about the experience of a modern American—an ex-pat, to be sure, but is there anything more modern and American that that? It is up to Andrei to navigate this country’s specific terribleness; or, rather, it is up to Gessen to guide Andrei through the mundane tumult of his life, and Gessen does so with a clarity and grace (and no /5().
item 7 A Terrible Country: A Novel, Hardcover, Gessen, Keith 7 - A Terrible Country: A Novel, Hardcover, Gessen, Keith. $ Free shipping. See all 23 - All listings for this product. Ratings and Reviews. Write a review. out of 5 stars based on 1 product rating. 1 product rating. 5. Keith Gessen was born in Moscow in and came to the United States with his family when he was six years old. He is a co-founder of the literary magazine n+1 and the author of the novels All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible www.doorway.ru has written about Russia for the London Review of Books, n+1, the Nation, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and has translated or co. You get Keith Gessen's sad, funny and altogether winning novel, A Terrible Country. Thirty-three-year-old Andrei Kaplan is stuck in a rut. His life is small, his New York City sublet is smaller, and he was just dumped by his girlfriend at a Starbucks. So when Andrei's shady older brother, an aspiring kleptocrat living in Moscow, asks Andrei to.
A Terrible Country is the first novel in ten years from n+1 founding editor Keith Gessen. Faced with dismal academic job prospects and a withering personal life, Andrei leaves New York to spend the summer in Moscow to care for his elderly grandmother (and to collect her tales of Stalinist Russia—a research topic that might finally get him a job). But when Andrei arrives, he finds his grandmother’s dementia is worse than he expected. A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen review – perceptive portrait of Russia Astute analysis and goofy prose combine in the story of a young man and his grandmother More intimidating than usual . A Terrible Country is the first novel in ten years from n+1 founding editor Keith Gessen. Faced with dismal academic job prospects and a withering personal life, Andrei leaves New York to spend the summer in Moscow to care for his elderly grandmother (and to collect her tales of Stalinist Russia—a research topic that might finally get him a job).
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