Sonechka A Novella and Stories

Name: Sonechka A Novella and Stories
Price: 37.39 USD
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ISBN: 9780805241952

ISBN-10: 0805241957

ISBN-13: 9780805241952

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ludmila Ulitskaya, Arch Tait

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These richly lyrical tales tell of love in all its permutations. In "Queen of Spades," Anna, a successful ophthalmologic surgeon in her 60s, lives with her daughter and her grandchildren in terror of her mother, an autocratic former beauty whose hold on the family is upset by the return of Anna's long-vanished husband. The closeted middle-aged professor in "Angel" marries an uneducated charwoman for the love of her young son, whom he is educating in his own image. The "Dauntless Women of the Russian Steppe" have different views on men, but they are fiercely devoted to one another. And in "Sonechka," a bookworm turned muse turned mother reveals a love and loyalty at once astounding in its…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/3/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Ludmila Ulitskaya was born in Russia and trained as a geneticist, she turned to writing after she had been stripped of her scientific credentials in the 1970's for translating a banned novel - Leon Uris's Exodus - into Russian. She lives in Moscow.



Sonechka


The Queen of Spades


Zurich


The Beast


Angel


The Orlov-Sokolovs


Dauntless Women of the Russian Steppe