William Francis Jack

Would You Care For Fries With That? William Francis Jack

""Doctor Zhivago"" is smuggled out of Russia and published in the West while Pasternak is banned from attending the Nobel ceremonies, Van Cliburn charms Russian audiences. Sakharov goes into internal exile while Solzhenitsyn is banished abroad. This was all part of the Cold War, and it drove thousands of American students to major in Russian. We all know what happened to Russia, but what about all those students of Russian? What would they do with an essentially worthless college degree? ""Would You Care For Fries With That?"" charts the zig-zag, crazed lives of five graduate students of Russian literature as they gather for a twenty-five year reunion.