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“The
less people know about you, the longer you live”
is the motto of Arkady Prikol — the antihero of this quirky, existential thriller — an
aging Russian-Jewish émigré living
an uneventful life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Uneventful until the day he gets a phone call
from a man who calls himself Timur. The man who
has been dead for 20 years.
Once upon a time
Arkady and Timur were best friends and co-workers
at a top-secret place called Lab 52, where
they designed and tested psychotropic drugs. But
soon Arkady and Timur’s camaraderie ran
into something greater than all the LSD in their
lab. Her name was Lisa. Such triangles don’t
end well. Arkady keeps replaying in his mind bittersweet
scenes of love, sex, and tenderness, and gradually
comes to realize that their torrid romance was
not what it seemed. As Lisa broke out of the romantic
mold the two friends have tried hard to keep her
in, she showed her true colors, and they learned
what happens when poetry mixes with political
dissent in a Russian girl’s heart.
With his old life
trying to catch up with him, Arkady goes on a
lam, running from one hideout to another —
from the Dominican barrio to a Moldavian bordello
in Riverdale and finally to a top-security Mafia
“sanctuary” in Brooklyn. As he runs,
he keeps searching for the clues to his caller’s
true identity, forced to dig into his long-dead
past where he suddenly discovers a slim possibility
of a future.
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“Gurevich
must be admired for some noteworthy comments on
his subject material: from drugs to identity,
communism to capitalism and from lust to love,
however astonishing such a love appears to be.
Vodka For
Breakfast is a thought-provoking and —
on the whole — satisfying read. Do not be
fooled at first glance by a seemingly unsatisfying
climax, as conjuring sense from disorientation
is perhaps David Gurevich’s greatest achievement.”
— Neil Ayres, Fragment
Magazine
trade
paperback
5.25" X 8.25"
266 pp.
list price $19
ISBN-13: 978-0-9728321-2-0
ISBN-10: 0-9728321-2-2
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