Olga Grushin, Author . Putnam $24.95 (354p) ISBN 978-0-399-15298-6
Even for a man on "the very best terms with the very best people," the Soviet Union on the eve of glasnost is a precarious place. So it goes for bitterly compelling antihero Anatoly Pavlovich Sukhanov, richly crafted in this debut novel by...
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Olga Grushin, Author . Putnam/Marian Wood $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15616-8
At one point in Grushin’s disappointing follow-up to The Dream Life of Sukhanov
, it is observed that standing on a line is “a very efficient way of disposing of people’s time.” But however efficient, it’s never...
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Olga Grushin. Putnam, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-101-98233-4
This newest work from Grushin, winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, is an enchanted meditation on poetry and life in which a child of the Moscow intelligentsia rejects a “small life consumed by happiness” in America and a
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Olga Grushin. Putnam, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-08550-9
Grushin (The Dream Life of Sukhanov) delivers a dizzying retelling of “Cinderella,” one in which nothing is as it seems and fairy tale marriages do not end happily ever after. Jane, 13 years into her marriage with Roland, who initially seemed like “a
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