Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by ALICE RANDALL (2004) SOFTCOVER [Advanced Reading Copy]

Pushkin and the Queen of Spades (2004)

by Alice Randall

SOFTCOVER [Advanced Reading Copy]. 2004. NEAR FINE copy with publisher's letter loosely laid-in. 306pp. Attractive reflective glossy cover. 

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 émigré 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.