The Ransom of Russian Art - Rilegato

McPhee, John A.

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ISBN 10: 0374246823 ISBN 13: 9780374246822

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994

Riassunto

The author of Assembling California enlightens readers once again as he investigates the clandestine activities of an American professor who retrieved eight thousand works of Soviet art by visiting dissident artists in the Soviet Union. 60,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0374246823
• ISBN 13: 9780374246822
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 181
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile