Note: Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available
|
|
PU - 239 AND OTHER RUSSIAN FANTASIES by Kalfus, Ken
- Bookseller: Magic Lantern Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 9616
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Very Good
- Edition: Second Printing
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0743400755
- ISBN 13: 9780743400756
- Publisher: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1999
- Size: 5.25 x 8.25 x 0.75 inches
- Weight: 0.45 pounds
Description
New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1999. Nominee of the Pen/Faulkner Award. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Winner of the Pushcart Prize. 289 pages with story titles: Pu-239; Anzhelika; Birobidzhan; Orbit; Budyonnovsk; Salt; with NOVELLA = Peredelkino.. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Book summary
As the Soviet Union collapses around them, the characters in these stories scramble to make lives for themselves. A nuclear plant worker sells plutonium on the sly in one story; in another, the first man in space looks back on his life, destroyed by the state. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999.
|
|
0 items in cart
