One of the most remarkable changes taking place in Russia after the break-up of the Soviet empire is the radical transformation of Russian women's culture. Despite a historically male dominated culture, gender awareness has flourished in the 1990s, and is reflected in a new body of women's literature and a new concern for female experience. The prose and poetry included in this anthology examine essential issues in women's lives: women's sexuality, romantic love, motherhood, the economic and political life of women, their struggle to integrate domestic and professional roles, new family structures, physical health, abortion, rape, and so forth.
Twenty-five writers are represented here, ranging from young to old, new to established, avant garde to traditional. The newer writing has challenged earlier thematic and stylistic prohibitions and this entered into a stimulating dialogue with more traditional work, as Helena Goscilo points out in her informative introduction. Thus, when the heroines of "First Try" and "Bus Driver Astap" act against accepted moral codes, they suffer physical punishment, but the heroines in the stories by Sadur and Palei inhabit structures with completely new rules.
Russian culture has produced great women artists and writers, and there is a growing appreciation today for the body of literature created by its female writers. This anthology offers the reader fascinating insights into the contemporary world of Russian women and introduces some major new talents.
Helena Goscilo is Chairman of the Slavic Department at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the leading scholars in the field of Russian women's culture. Her works include Fruits of Her Plume Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture; Balancing Acts; and Russian and Polish Women's Fiction. She is also co-editor of the anthologies Glasnost and The Wild Beach two collections of Russian prose from the 1980s.

Lives in Transit: A Collection of Recent Russian Women's Writing

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Pollono, John

13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

MOERS, WALTER

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An important stylistic force in twentieth-century Russian literature, Boris Pilnyak never shied from controversy. His incendiary stories melded sexual themes with his doubts about the Soviet Union; his frank portrayal of mother-son incest in "The Nizhni Novgorod" -- taken as a comment on the revolution of February 1917 -- became the catalyst for his persecution. This collection serves as a valuable introduction to the author's greatest stories. The acclaimed translation by Vera T. Reck and Michael Green makes Pilnyak's prose accessible to contemporary audiences while maintaining his evocative voice.

Mahogany: And Other Stories

Pilnyak, Boris

Since the initial publication of the first three groundbreaking volumes -- Horror, Science Fiction, and The Western -- The Overlook Film Encyclopedia series has been deemed the most authoritative, stylish, and compulsively readable film reference series ever. In The Gangster Film, series editor Phil Hardy has created yet again a landmark in film reference.
Included in this lavish volume are critical entries on more than 1,500 gangster films, complete with plot synapses and credits, and 650 black and white photographs to capture the look of this exciting genre. Arranged chronologically, The Gangster Film offers deliciously opinionated and detailed descriptions, statistical information, credits and trivia from early classics such as Public Enemy, Key Largo, Dragnet, and On the Waterfront to contemporary blockbusters such as The Grifters, Chinatown, The Godfather, and Pulp Fiction. Essential, authoritative, and entertaining, The Gangster Film is the guide for serious students of film, film buffs, and home viewers.

The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Phil Hardy

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The Kinks lead singer and song writer tells the story of his life and career to a nameless writer hired by "the Corporation" to be the rock singer's biographer

X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

DAVIES, Ray

A critically acclaimed biography of the Bronte+a5 family draws  on the letters of the family members, newspaper accounts of the time,  and original manuscripts to reveal a talented but troubled family in  which its members were at odds with each other in many ways. Reprint.  NYT. PW.

The Brontes

BARKER, Juliet

A vivid and concise biography packed with stunning, rarely seen photos of one of the 20th century's most popular and influential novelists - 'a writer of great power...a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing beautifully' (The New York Times) Ayn Rand made a profound impact as both a philosopher who founded a school of social thought, Objectivism, and as a novelist of penetrating insight and vision. Her novels are founded on heroic ideals, demonstrating her famous maxim (from which she drew the title of her most widely-known book) that, 'man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.' The photos and illustrations in this volume have been hand-selected from the Ayn Rand Archives, and most have never been published. They include personal mementos of a Petersburg childhood, photos of the schools Rand attended, her family and their home on Nevsky prospect, from where she witnessed the first shots of the revolution in 1917; Rand's Soviet passport, photos from her exile in Berlin and her early years in America as an extra and then screenwriter in Hollywood; personal papers, including Rand's list of the twelve publishers who passed on The Fountainhead; original newspaper articles, first edition book jackets, film posters, notes, drawings, and many others.

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Britting, Jeffrey

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A trio of witty mysteries featuring the adventures and exploits of the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai, a degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, epicurean, assassin, and general knave, includes Don't Point That Thing at Me, After Your with the Pistol, and Something Nasty in the Woodshed. Original.

The Mortdecai Trilogy

Bonfiglioli, Kyril

A compellingly inspirational memoir of a young woman confronting the battle of her life with hope, humor, and style.

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Memoirs

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