Publication

1994 - Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

79,500 words, Guess

Page Count

318 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1728587
  • Goodreads1265328

Classifications

  • DDC947.086
  • LCCDK510.29 .D87 1994

Description

When in 1988 Jo Durden-Smith undertook to write an article about Leningrad for an American travel magazine, the Soviet Union loomed like "a black hole on the edge of Europe . . . impenetrable and incomprehensible," yielding faint traces of meaning only "against the odds of the local gravity." From the moment he stepped off the airplane, Durden-Smith found himself as an unchaperoned (and unusually tall) Westerner in the early months of glasnost, to be a genuine curiosity, both on the street and at the gatherings of Russian intelligentsia to which he was graciously admitted.

Subjects

People

Jo Durden-Smith (1941-)Jo Durden-Smith (1941-2007)

Other Editions

  • Russia: a long-shot romanceKnopf1994-01-01

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