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Pu-239
And Other Russian Fantasies
by Ken Kalfus
ISBN: 0743400755
ISBN-13: 9780743400756
Format: Paperback
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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.
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"Imaginative, densely detailed stories that open a window on a world perhaps more remote now than ever before. Kalfus's crafty, nerve-rattling tales are among the most unusual and interesting now being written."
-- Kirkus
"Kalfus employs a courage and respect in tackling his subjects....The first paragraph of [one] story reverberates with the kind of lasting chill Stephen King only dreams about creating." -- Emily Carter
-- Hungry Mind Review
"PU-239 AND OTHER RUSSIAN FANTASIES is so full of pleasure and wonder from sentence to sentence and page to page that it touches the reader physically, as Borges once put it, 'like the closeness of the sea or of the morning.'...[Kalfus's] writing is alternately sparse or lush where appropriate, and Kalfus...exudes an uncanny authenticity....Kalfus inhabits the consciousness of all his disparate characters with equal adroitness. The stories themselves have a cumulative power, achieving an epic vision of a country and its past as well as an intimate portrait of individual lives." -- Andrew G. Roe
-- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"Kalfus is a virtuoso of the dismal comedy of Soviet life-the 'myopia left undiagnosed'; the dull, brute clatter surrounding the soundless vacuum-and its social, environmental and spiritual self-destruction....There's a sterner sort of playfulness on display here than was evident in THIRST, Kalfus's previous and much-admired story collection. There are also fewer literary pyrotechnics....[What] makes this book luminous [is]....the empathetic generosity of its portraits...." -- Jim Shepard
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Washington Square Pr
Published date: 2000
Size: 5.25 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.45 pounds
Publisher's Notes
A collection of short fiction zigzags across modern Russia, from a nuclear power plant where a low-level worker is about to sell weapons-grade plutonium, to the ruins of Chechnya, to an editor faced with reviewing the fiction of Leonid Brezhnev, in an anthology nominated for the Pen/Faulkner Award. Reprint.
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Washington Square Press Inc., 2000. Clean, tight copy with no writings or markings. Not an Ex-Library Book. The spine is not creased. Colorfully illustrated cover. Includes 6 stories, 1 Novella, and a photograph and a brief biography of the author.. 1st Edition (10987654321). Soft Cover. Very Good. Measures: 5-1/4" x 8-1/4". 289 Pages. ( more information) Offered by JP's Books and Beyond (United States)
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New York: Washington Square Press, 2000. First Thus. paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Some shelfwear, rubbing along edges and corners. Light crease at front and back cover with a couple quite small corner creases to pages. ISBN: 0-7434-0075-5. ( more information) Offered by Adventures Underground (United States)
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Washington Square Press, 1999. Softcover. NF. Light rubbing.. no. Collection of short stories, winner of the Pushcart Prize. Trade Paperback ( more information) Offered by Old Goat Books (Canada)
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Kalfus, Ken
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. ( more information) Offered by Magic Lantern Books (United States)
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