Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow - Couverture rigide

Idov, Michael

 
9780374223151: Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
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ISBN 10 : 0374223157 ISBN 13 : 9780374223151
Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2018

Synopsis

In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside - and closely observing - the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but nonetheless finds himself pulled in unlikely directions. He becomes a tabloid celebrity, acts in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriends the members of Pussy Riot, punches an anti-Semitic magazine editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sells an autobiographical sitcom pilot that is later changed into an anti- American farce, and writes Russia's top-grossing domestic movie of 2015. Meanwhile, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to Putin and is briefly attracted to a kind of jaded Putinism lite - until Russia's invasion of Ukraine thoroughly changes his mind. In Dressed Up for a Riot, Idov writes openly, sensitively, and stingingly about life in Moscow and his place in a media apparatus that sometimes undermined but more often bolstered a state system defined by cynicism, corruption, and the fanning of fake news. With humour and intelligence, he offers a close-up glimpse of what a declining world power can become.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Idov is an award-winning journalist, a screenwriter, and the author of the novel Ground Up (FSG, 2009). From 2006 to 2012, he was a contributing editor at New York magazine and won three National Magazine Awards for his writing; he edited GQ Russia from 2012 to 2014. Born in 1976 in Riga, Latvia, Idov moved to the United States in 1992 and currently lives in Berlin.

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Éditeur
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0374223157
ISBN 13 
9780374223151
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0374538166 ISBN 13 :  9780374538163
Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2019
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