The Resource A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka, (electronic resource)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their father's intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9781101201060
- Label
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- Title
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- Statement of responsibility
- Marina Lewycka
- Subject
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- trueHusband and wife
- trueFortune hunters
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueImmigrants
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMay-December romance
- truePsychological fiction
- Romance
- trueSenior men -- Relations with younger women
- trueSibling rivalry
- trueSisters
- trueUkrainians in Great Britain
- trueWidowers
- trueAging parents
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueEngland
- trueFamily lore
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFathers and daughters
- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their father's intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully
- Summary
- Putting aside a lifetime of rivalry when they learn that their recently widowed father is planning to remarry a gold-digging woman, sisters Vera and Nadezhda find themselves outmaneuvered by their father's scheming fiancée, a situation that is compromised by a hurricane, family secrets, and their father's obsession with tractor history
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- 132046
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- 1946-
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- Lewycka, Marina
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
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- True
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- Fiction
- Romance
- Historical Fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781101201060
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- unknown sound
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- other
- remote
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- Adobe EPUB eBook
- Kindle Book
- OverDrive Read
- Label
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781101201060
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 4d8adcad-87a1-47ab-ac7e-9131ea6849d5
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System details
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- Adobe EPUB eBook
- Kindle Book
- OverDrive Read
Subject
- trueHusband and wife
- trueFortune hunters
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueImmigrants
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMay-December romance
- truePsychological fiction
- Romance
- trueSenior men -- Relations with younger women
- trueSibling rivalry
- trueSisters
- trueUkrainians in Great Britain
- trueWidowers
- trueAging parents
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueEngland
- trueFamily lore
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFathers and daughters
- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
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