The genius under the table : growing up behind the Iron Curtain [eAudiobook - hoopla]

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The genius under the table : growing up behind the Iron Curtain

(2021)

By: Yelchin, Eugene

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED

[United States] : Dreamscape Media, 2021
Made available through hoopla

EDITION

Unabridged

DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 54 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN

9781666528862 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT14580326, 1666528862 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 14580326

LANGUAGE

English

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Winner of the 2022 Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award

How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts of charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family

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