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Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957-
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Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957-
Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957- -- Travel.
Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957- -- Relations with women.
Documentary films -- Production and direction -- Russia (Federation) -- Kotelʹnich.
Kotelʹnich (Russia) -- Social conditions -- 2001-2010.
Kotelʹnich (Russia) -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2010.
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My life as a Russian novel : a memoir / Emmanuel Carrère ; translated by Linda Coverdale.
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Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957-
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
Subjects
Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957-
Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957- -- Travel.
Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957- -- Relations with women.
Documentary films -- Production and direction -- Russia (Federation) -- Kotelʹnich.
Kotelʹnich (Russia) -- Social conditions -- 2001-2010.
Kotelʹnich (Russia) -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2010.
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9780805087550
0805087559
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276 p. ; 22 cm.
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1st U.S. ed.
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In this memoir, acclaimed French novelist Carrère turns his critical eye on himself, recounting a disappointing documentary-film endeavor and a deteriorating romance. The discovery of a Hungarian prisoner of war brings Carrère to the tiny post-Soviet town of Kotelnich, but the dead-end story crushes his hopes for an interesting film project. Though rural Kotelnich is hopelessly dull, Carrère decides to stay. He'll cover the town's poor, hard-working residents, including a bodybuilder who helps reform wayward young men and a local girl aspiring to be the next Britney Spears. More important, he'll look into the mysterious disappearance of his Russian grandfather. Hand-in-hand in this torturous Russian saga is Carrère's romantic crisis with fiancée Sophie, a young woman in love with the author but so cowed by his moods and self-absorption that she took another lover and lied outrageously about it, compounding Carrère's emotional paranoia.
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
843.914 Carrere Ca
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843.914 Ca
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