The Geek Who Came from the Cold: Surviving the Post-USSR Era on a Hollywood Diet - Seeking reviews for a geeky tragicomical true-story-based coming-of-age story

[Leon]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for reviews for my second novel, "The Geek Who Came from the Cold: Surviving the Post-USSR Era on a Hollywood Diet" (219 pages)

Blurb:
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When the first wave of pirated videotapes from the west reached the USSR in the second half of the 1980s, that stuff was still illegal. If you had money, you still watched it, of course, be it “Commando”, or “The Godfather”, or “Emmanuelle”, or whatever you were lucky to get. Maybe you’d get arrested, maybe you wouldn’t. If you were found out, in most cases that meant prison. You would still watch it – and couldn’t get enough of it.

Being a shy, mild-mannered Jewish boy in a repressed and conservative society dominated by very specific ideas of masculinity was difficult enough. But being one of the first film geeks in a country that never had a word like “geek” in its vocabulary… well, that made life so much more complicated.

“The Geek Who Came from the Cold – Surviving the Post-USSR Era on a Hollywood Diet” is Leon Kaminsky’s second novel – tragicomic, wistful and of course extremely nerdy.
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I'm only interested in Amazon reviews (Goodread review would be a bonus).

To request a free digital copy, please e-mail me at leonkaminsky ( at ) yahoo dot com and indicate your preferred format.

Many thanks!