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Pushkin and the Queen of Spades
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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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780786187256
- ISBN-10: 0786187255
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date: May 2004
- Dimensions: 5.08 x 5.68 x 1.99 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.93 pounds
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