The Guest: A Novel History & Criticism of Russian & Soviet Literature Organized around key American films

Organized around key American films from the 1970s

without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper

Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag

failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine

He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress

The Guest: A Novel History & Criticism of Russian & Soviet Literature Organized around key American filmsNATIONAL BESTSELLER A young woman pretends to be someone she isnt in this spellbinding (Vogue), smoldering (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. Under Clines command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force.The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN FAULKNER AWARD A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Time, NPR,