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Set in present-day London, Rome, and Leningrad, Stalin's Moscow, and the St. Petersburg of the czars, this novel centers on the cold war between truth and lies
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Sphinx is the third in Thomas's trilogy of Russian novels, following Ararat ( LJ 3/1/83) and Swallow ( LJ 11/15/83) . Its fragmented plot concerns a Welsh journalist named Lloyd George and his obsession with a mysterious, sphinxlike woman whom he meets while traveling through Russia in 1982. George both hopes and fears that Nadia may be a "swallow," a KGB operative whose mission is to seduce visiting Westerners. If she is, at least he will get to sleep with her! The book itself is a sphinxlike puzzle that is part screenplay, part novel, and part poem, with Thomas paying allusive homage to the ghost of Pushkin throughout. Whether the digressive text forms a coherent whole or is merely a clever pastiche of things Russian is not immediately clear. Nevertheless, Thomas's many fans will line up for this one, and even newcomers will be seduced. Edward B. St. John, Loyola Marymount Univ. Lib., Los Angeles
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- PublisherPocket
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0671641581
- ISBN 13 9780671641580
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages200
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Soft cover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Washington Square Press, 1st edition thus, 1st printing, 1988. Softbound book condition: very good. Covers very good with few obvious signs of wear; binding sound; pages very good except for ancient pricer sticker on half-title page, tanned at outside edges. 253 pages; 6.75 X 4 X 0.5; 9.5 oz. shipping weight. British writer D.M. Thomas was initially known as a poet, and during his career he published 20 volumes of poetry. Most people remember him for his magnificent novel, The White Hotel. However, was something of a Slavic Studies scholar, writing many translations of Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Pushkin. He also wrote a biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The present volume is the third novel in his Russian Quintet. Seller Inventory # 3.3.6.18
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