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The Price of Freedom: A Russian Doctor Immigrates to America (English and Russian Edition)Author: Vladimir Golyakhovsky, M.D.Title: The Price of Freedom: A Russian Doctor Immigrates to America (English and Russian Edition)Publication: E.P. DuttonEdition: FIRST EDITIONDescription: First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by E.P. Dutton, 1986. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with light spotting on page ends. Dust jacket is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller ID: 333615Subject: Biography & Letters We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Recreating his lowering experiences as an immigrant in Manhattan, Golyakhovsky emerges as more sympathetic than the preening personality met in Russian Doctor, his memoir of life as a well-connected orthopedic surgeon in Moscow. At age 50, and with high expectations, Golyakhovsky arrived here accompanied by his fretful wife, Irina, sullen son, Junior, his hearty mother and ailing father who has since died. The stresses of their lot took a toll, with Irina working as a clerk until finally being able to return to her field of research science, and Junior struggling through college and admission to medical school. The author, who lagged far behind his family at learning English, wrote for a Russian-language newspaper, broadcast on Radio Liberty, composed his memoirs, crammed for medical certification exams, became a hospital technician and then a first-year resident, but failed to find an advanced residencyand had a love affair that threatened his family life.If Golyakhovsky's self-importance in considering his every moment worthy of recording is tiresome, his harsh encounter with the promised land proves so affecting that we weep with him a little when he becomes a citizen and begins to feel at one with us.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The sheer number of immigrants to the United States probably blinds many Americans to the difficult time these people have adapting to unfamiliar ways. This account by a Russian surgeon, who immigrated at middle age with his family, vividly describes his bout with "immigrant's disease" and culture shock as he struggles to develop needed contacts, to find an apartment and a job, to learn a new language, to qualify to resume his former profession, to see his son through college and medical school. Strains in family life caused by the pressures of adaptation meant no respite, no matter how badly needed. Still, through all the trials and hardships shine the hope and determination that propel immigrants to the United States in the first place.Marcia L. Sprules, Univ. of South Dakota Lib., Vermillion
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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