Description: New - Unread! Hardback with slipcoverTraces four generations of Russian family life--and the very course of modern Soviet history--through a portrait of the Dovlatov clan Dovlatov, who fled the Soviet Union in 1978 and now lives in New York, is a worthy successor to the great Russian satirists whose tradition he enlarges. Through 13 captivating, sharp, funny vignettes of family members, he paints an ironic picture of life in the Soviet Union from the reign of Stalin to the present day. With an endless fund of anecdote, Dovlatov ( The Zone ; The Compromise ) tells hair-raising, hilarious stories, such as how he became a labor-camp guard assigned to watch over his own cousin, and the wildly improbable way he met his wife. He is, at times, very quotable. On himself in youth: "Masquerading as an unrecognized genius somehow made existence easier." On social classes: "Apparently, people at the bottom of the social ladder don't much care for others like themselves: they prefer to love the masters." Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Type: Literary Movements & Periods
Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Original Language: Russian
Publication Year: 1989
Topic: Sociology / Marriage & Family
Book Title: Ours : a Russian Family Album
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Genre: Social Science
Author: Sergei Dovlatov
Format: Hardcover
