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Vodka For Breakfast (2003)

by David Gurevich(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0972832122 (ISBN13: 9780972832120)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

ENC Press

review 1: David Gurevich's Vodka for Breakfast grabs the reader by the lapel and heaves them through this magnetic novel; Gurevich interweaves fast-paced action, wistful romance, and sharp wit in a concoction that is so compelling, it seems to be laced with vodka!Russian immigrant Arkady Prikol thought he could file his past away – a beautiful and mysterious woman named Lisa, a job with the KGB creating and testing powerful drugs – confining it to nightmares and drowning it in pills and booze. However, the unassuming Jewish New Yorker is compelled to face it when he gets a call from his long-time friend and coworker Timur... who has been dead for years. Forced into a conspiratorial web and fleeing unknown pursuers, Prikol struggles to maintain sanity in order to keep his life an... mored find the truth behind his present troubles and the fires of the past that refuse to be put out.Gurevich's characters are as compelling as his wry humor, and the novel's heavier moments are equally moving and well-written. I highly recommend Vodka for Breakfast, not only as a fun, hard-to-put-down read, but also as a thought-provoking novel that isn't afraid to “tell it like it is!”
review 2: If Vodka for Breakfast were set to a soundtrack, the music would flow surprisingly easy between sharp cello strings found in a car chasing scene from the likes of a Bourne Identity film, to the soft piano keys set as the background music to a favorite love story. In his novel, David Gurevich is able to stitch together the action and drama genres to weave a story of danger and love while exploring the possibility that even after these things cease to exist, the past still does. I picked this book because of the title, but what kept me reading was the main character, Arkady Prikol, claims that he lives a plot-less life where nothing exciting happens. However, while he proclaims this misery, the words around him suggest that he has a very interesting life indeed. Prikol is a man with a past. He receives phone calls from people he believes are dead; his mother is either crazy or pretending to be crazy; and he just can’t seem to shake a memory of love from his youth.His first instinct is to run from all these things. However, with his history nipping at his heels, he begins to unfold part of the past he didn’t know was there. As Prikol begins to put the pieces together, he reflects on his history that has now become his present. Prikol questions what a person might need in life except for the love a good woman and the friendship of a good man. While this question has a nice ring to it, I think Vodka for Breakfast is Gurevich’s subtle way of suggesting that while a person might only need these things, perhaps a good book wouldn’t hurt either. less

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