Books by Vassily Aksyonov and Complete Book Reviews
Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author, Vassily Aksyonov, Author Vintage Books USA $7.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-394-75992-0
A Soviet emigre novelist now living in Washington, D.C., Aksyonov ( The Burn ) describes here alienation from and gradual acceptance of his adopted homeland, in what PW characterized as ``a perceptive potpourri that is mildly witty and affecting but
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Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author, Vassily Aksyonov, Author, Antonina W. Bouis, Translator Random House (NY) $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-394-54364-2
A Soviet emigre novelist now living in Washington, D.C., Aksyonov (The Burn, etc.) describes here alienation from and gradual acceptance of his adopted homeland. The self-described ""critically thinking Soviet'' tosses off a perceptive potpourri...
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Vassily Aksyonov, Author, Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author Random House (NY) $25 (592p) ISBN 978-0-394-56961-1
The exiled Russian author of The Burn and In Search of Melancholy Baby has attempted a daring coup in this huge, panoramic novel of Soviet life from 1925 to 1945: nothing less than a War and Peace for the 20th century. Aksyonov is a thoroughly self-c
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Vassily Aksyonov, Author, Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author Random House (NY) $27.5 (496p) ISBN 978-0-679-43274-6
The author of that magnificent Tolstoyan epic of 20th-century Russia, Generations of Winter, continues here the saga of the Gradov family as it endures the postwar privations, the increasingly manic suspicions of Stalin and the louche sexual...
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Vassily Aksyonov, Author, Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Author Random House (NY) $29.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-679-44401-5
Alexander Korbach, the hero of acclaimed Russian migr Aksyonov's picaresque new novel, is, like his author, so disliked by the Soviet authorities that after a career as a protest singer and dramaturge for a troupe called the Buffoons, he's...
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Vassily Aksyonov, Author, Peter Osnos, Editor, Aksyonov Bouis, Translator Random House (NY) $19.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-394-54363-5
This lengthy new release by the well-known emigre writer ( In Search of Melancholy Baby ) is an exuberant high-spirited farce that makes pointed jabs at every aspect of Soviet society. Max Ogorodnikov, the ``star'' of the novel, is a larger-than-life
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