Snow White and Russian Red

"Nails" Robakoski is unraveling after his girlfriend Magda dumps him. A tracksuited slacker who spends most of his time doing little more than searching for his next line of speed and dreaming up conspiracy theories about the Polish economy, Nails ricochets from Magda, a doomed beauty who bewitches men, to Angela, a proselytizing vegetarian Goth, to Natasha, a hellcat who tears his house apart looking for speed, to Ala, the nerdy economics-student girlfriend of the friend who stole Magda. Through it all, a xenophobic campaign against the proliferating Russian black market escalates, to the point where the citizens have to paint their houses in national colors and one of these girls will be crowned Miss No Russkies Day--or is that just in Nails' fevered mind?

Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 02/03/2005
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780802170019


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/01/2005 pg. 18
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/15/2004 pg. 42
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2004 pg. 1159
Library Journal 01/15/2005 pg. 94
Library Journal 11/15/2004
Library Journal 01/01/2005
Publishers Weekly 02/07/2005 pg. 40
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 75