Dressed Up for a Riot by Michael Idov the week Jaxie Clackton is a teenager

Jaxie Clackton is a teenager whose mother has died of cancer and who lives in a small town in western Australia with his violently alcoholic father

This led him to develop “the sense of inky spontaneity”

people have always had to eat

just as on many other islands

Dressed Up for a Riot by Michael Idov the week Jaxie Clackton is a teenagerIn this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside and closely observing the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but