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My affair with Stalin

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Philip Roth meets Evelyn Waugh in a blackly comic portrayal of prep-school adolescence. Motefiore creates a young anti-hero as hilarious as Just William, as monstrous as Stalin himself, whose rite of passage shows what happens when a game of power grows into a dangerous obsession.

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First published January 1, 1997

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February 7, 2023
It did have a very original story but it was just odd. The beginning was kind of all over the place.
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July 4, 2013
No need for a summary of content here - an earlier review is excellent on this. The aspect of My Affair with Stalin I want especially to praise is its wonderful evocation of the life of a prep-school boy in the 1970s: I was there, and thanks to Montefiore, I've just been back.

Funny, sad, horrific, wonderful! A brilliant book; read it!
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October 21, 2007
Hilarious! A young boy copies Stalin's political manuevering's in order to survive at school.
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