Jacob's ladder / Ludmila Ulitskaya ; translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374293659
- ISBN: 0374293651
- Physical Description: 546 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The willow chest (1975) -- The watchmaker's shop on Mariinsko-Blagoveshchenskaya street (1905-1907) -- From the willow chest : the diary of Jacob Ossetsky (1910) -- Closing Chekhov (1974) -- A new project (1974) -- Classmates (1955-1963) -- From the willow chest : the diary of Jacob Ossetsky (1911) -- The garden of magnitudes (1958-1974) -- Admirers (1975-1976) -- A Froebel-miss (1907-1910) -- A letter from Mikhail Kerns to his sister, Marusya (1910) -- One-of-a-kind Yurik : Yahoos and Houyhnhnms (1976-1981) -- A major year (1911) -- A female line (1975-1980) -- Unaccommodated man (1980-1981) -- A secret marriage (1911) -- From the willow chest : Jacob's notebook (1911) -- Marusya's letters (December 1911) -- First grade : fingernails (1982) -- From the willow chest : Jacob's letter to Marusya : volunteer Ossetsky (1911-1912) -- A happy year (1985) -- From the willow chest : letters from and to the Urals (October 1912-May 1913) -- A new direction (1976-1982) -- Carmen (1985) -- The diamond door (1986) -- From the willow chest : the correspondence of Jacob and Marusya (May 1913-January 1914) -- Nora in America : visiting Vitya and Martha (1987) -- The left hand (1988-1989) -- The birth of Genrikh (1916) -- Endings (1988-1989) -- A boat to the other shore (1988-1991) -- From the willow chest : family correspondence (1916) -- Kiev/Moscow (1917-1925) -- Yurik in America (1991-2000) -- Letters from Marusya to Jacob : Sudak (July-August 1925) -- Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (early 1999-2000) -- Uzun-Syrt Stalingrad Tractor Plant (1925-1933) -- First exile : Stalingrad tractor plant (1931-1933) -- Yurik comes home (early 2000) -- From the willow chest biysk : Jacob's letters (1934-1936) -- Letters from the willow chest : war (1942-1943) -- Fifth try (2000-2009) -- Family secrets (1936-1937) -- Variations on a theme : Fiddler on the roof (1992) -- With Mikhoels (1945-1948) -- Reunion in Moscow (2003) -- Theater of shadows (2010) -- Liberation (1955) -- The birth of a new Jacob (2011) -- The archives (2011). |
Language Note: | Translated from the Russian. |
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Subject: | Families > Soviet Union > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Soviet Union > History > Fiction. Families. Soviet Union. |
Genre: | Novels. Fiction. History. Novels. Historical fiction. Epic fiction. Russian fiction. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | F ULITSKAI | 39851001522755 | Adult Fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
Ludmila Ulitskaya is one of Russiaâs most popular and renowned literary figures. A former scientist and the director of Moscowâs Hebrew Repertory Theater, she is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, including The Big Green Tent; several tales for children; and multiple plays that have been staged by a number of theaters in Russia and Germany. She has won Russiaâs Man Booker Prize and twice won its Big Book Prize, as well as being nominated for the Man Booker International Prize.
Polly Gannon is the director of cultural studies at the New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture. She holds a Ph.D. in Russian literature from Cornell University. She lives, teaches, and translates in St. Petersburg, Russia.