LIFE AS A LITERARY DEVICE Electronic Press Kit Book information Life as a Literary Device: A Writer's Manual of Survival Both a summation and a new beginning for Vitaliev, Life as a Literary Device is an analysis of how literature has bound his life and an exploration of how to survive in the modern world. Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born cultural commentator and journalist whose life has been spent exploring the curious, the unusual and the plain dotty manifestations of human life around the world. The author of cult classics, such as Dreams on Hitler's Couch, Vitaliev has a tremendously wry take on the human species as it goes about its daily life. LIFE AS A LITERARY DEVICE Electronic Press Kit Author information Vitali Vitaliev was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He first made a name for himself in the then Soviet Union, writing satirical journalism in Krokodil and other publications, exposing the activities of organised crime and the all-permeating corruption in the collapsing country. His fearless stance ultimately led to his defection in 1990, following months of persecution by the KGB. He has appeared regularly on TV and radio in the UK (Have I Got News For You, Saturday Night Clive, After Dark, Start the Week), was a writer/researcher for QI and has contributed to newspapers and magazines all over the world. He is the author of eleven books, including cult classics such as Dreams on Hitler's Couch, Borders Up, Vitali's Ireland and Passport to Enclavia. Praise for Vitali Vitaliev: * “Vitali Vitaliev is a star” – Time Magazine. * “The charm of Michael Palin and the wit of Clive Anderson” – Time Out * “Vitaliev has an irrepressible sense of humour” – The Guardian * “An ironic and witty commentator on life” – The Spectator * “Vitaliev transcends his genre, producing a literary journey with lessons about what really matters” – Literary Review. * “A genial companion. He relishes his successes without arrogance and suffers disappointment without self-pity.” – The Independent. LIFE AS A LITERARY DEVICE Electronic Press Kit Technical Details * Price: £4.11 * Format: Kindle Edition * File Size: 801 KB * Publisher: Thrust Books * Sold by: Amazon Kindle Store * Language English * ISBN: 978-1-908756-01-5 LIFE AS A LITERARY DEVICE Electronic Press Kit Contact information Press Department Thrust Books 3rd Floor 26 Throgmorton Street London EC2N 2AN Email: bookspress@advfn.com Phone: +44 (0) 207 070 0932 Contact us and ask for a review copy of Life as a Literary Device. LIFE AS A LITERARY DEVICE Electronic Press Kit COMING SOON Passport to Enclavia by Vitali Vitaliev Acclaimed writer Vitali Vitaliev takes a personal journey through Europe's forgotten enclaves, tiny fragments of countries cut off and completely surrounded by another. Stuck for centuries between two different cultures, currencies and (at times) languages, each enclave features fascinating idiosyncrasies of everyday life, making these geographical and historical anomalies perfect destinations for an inquisitive, knowledge-hungry traveller. An enclave in his own right, Vitaliev, a Ukrainian-born Russian Jew with Australian and British citizenship, travels in search of his own elusive identity and in search of what makes Europeans truly unique. He goes to Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Italy and Austria, setting out just as the European identity is being imposed from Brussels through the Euro. To be published March 2012. Vitali’s Ireland by Vitali Vitaliev An affectionate and slightly perplexed portrait of Ireland from a vastly experienced travel writer, and a man who understands exile and displacement. Vitali highlights the good and the bad: on the one hand the litter, the shabbiness and the drunkenness; on the other the kindness, the stunningly beautiful scenery, and the tide of change bring with it prosperity and new hope. Using old guidebooks, Vitali retraces the steps of travel writers in the past and contrasts the twenty-first-century Ireland with the island a century ago. Provisional publishing date June/July 2012. Press Department, Thrust Books, 3rd Floor, 26 Throgmorton Street, London EC2N 2AN Email: bookspress@advfn.com Phone: +44 (0) 207 070 0932 Contact us and ask for a review copy of Life as a Literary Device.