Isolde (Pushkin Collection) - Softcover

Odoevtseva, Irina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782274774 ISBN 13: 9781782274773

Verlag: Pushkin Press, 2019

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Irina Odoyevtseva charts out a new course for women's literature. The story of a 14-year-old girl's attitude to life, and for the female image thus emerging, reveal to us something hitherto unknown * Vladimir Varshavsky *

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"No, I'm no queen," she repeated. "In fact, I'm very modern. Why do you look at me like that?" Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty and insists upon calling her Isolde; she is taken with his Buick and ability to pay for dinner and champagne. Disaffected and restless, Liza, her brother Nikolai and her boyfriend Andrei enjoy Cromwell's company in restaurants and jazz bars after he follows Liza back to Paris - until his mother stops giving him money. When the siblings' own mother abandons them to follow a lover to Nice, the group falls deeper into its haze of alcohol, and their darker drives begin to take over. First published in 1929, Isolde is a startlingly fresh, disturbing portrait of a lost generation of Russian exiles by Irina Odoevtseva, a major Russian writer who has never before appeared in English.

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• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1782274774
• ISBN 13: 9781782274773
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320