| Pushkin and the Queen of Spades Contributor(s): Randall, Alice (Author), Pitts, Lisa Rene (Read by), Fraley, Patrick (Producer) |
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ISBN: 0786187255 ISBN-13: 9780786187256 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: This is a provocative enormously entertaining novel about family, motherhood, and race from the history-making author of The Wind Done Gone. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.99" H x 5.68" W x 5.08" (0.93 lbs) |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard educated, African American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro-football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, is that her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian emigre who also happens to be a lap dancer. For Windsor, this is no laughing matter. Determined to get to the source of it, she embarks on a journey into her own rich past. As she moves ever closer to the secret that has cast a shadow over her life, she discovers that the half-lies she has fed her son don't add up to the beauty of the truth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fraley, Patrick: - Patrick Fraley has created voices for over four thousand characters, placing him among the top ten performers of all time to be cast in animated programs. He holds an MFA in acting from Cornell University and is the author of the only character-voice curriculum ever to be accredited at the university level. Alice Randall is the author of The Wind Done Gone. She was awarded the Free Spirit Award in 2001 and the Literature Award of Excellence by the Memphis Black Writers Conference in 2002, and she was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in 2002. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Pitts, Lisa Rene: -Lisa Renee Pitts is an accomplished actress in theater, film, and television, appearing in The Practice, The Shield, and Law & Order. A native New Yorker, she holds a BFA in theater arts from Rutgers University and resides in Burbank, California. Huber, Hillary: -Hillary Huber is one of the most successful voice talents in Los Angeles. Recent books read for Blackstone Audio include Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him by Patricia Marx, A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read, and A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart. |