Editore: Key Porter Books, Toronto, Ontario, 1995
ISBN 10: 1550136585 ISBN 13: 9781550136586
Da: Walther's Books, Hopkins, MN, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine Condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine Condition. First Canadian Edition. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth with the spine stamped in gilt.
Editore: Random House, 1995, 1995
Da: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First edition Retired from one library and looking for a new one. With minimal library ID. Near fine in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout.
Editore: Little, Brown and Company, Boston et al., 1991
ISBN 10: 0316968838 ISBN 13: 9780316968836
Da: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Printing.
Editore: Macmillan, London, England, 1984
ISBN 10: 0333375599 ISBN 13: 9780333375594
Da: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good, Not Price Clipped. British First. Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.
Editore: Henry Holt, 1987
Da: Et Al's Read & Unread Books, Wausau, WI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine milk-grey boards backed in blue cloth with silver lettering at spine. In a Fine $15.95 dust jacket. Bright, snug & unmarked first printing. Boldly Signed by Yevtushenko at front free endpaper. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Robson Books, 1995, 1995
Da: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
First edition SIGNED. Actively and affectionately inscribed and signed on the opening flyleaf. Fine and bright in like dustjacket edition is attractive all around.
Editore: Random House, New York, NY, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679445749 ISBN 13: 9780679445746
Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [14], 415, [3] pages. Glossary. Signed on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling. From Wikipedia: "Yevgà ny Aleksándrovich Yevtushà nko (Russian: ;[1] 18 July 1933 - 1 April 2017)[2][3] was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several films. After October 2007 Yevtushenko divided his time between Russia and the United States, teaching Russian and European poetry and the history of world cinema at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and at Queens College of the City University of New York. In the West he was best known for his criticism of the Soviet bureaucracy and appeals for getting rid of the legacy of Stalin. He was working on a three-volume collection of 11th to 20th-century Russian poetry, and planned a novel based on his time in Havana during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In October 2007, he was an artist-in-residence with the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park, and recited his poem Babi Yar before a performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, which sets five of his poems. The first performance of the two works on the same program that Shostakovich set to Yevtushenko texts, "Babi Yar" (Symphony 13) and "The Execution of Stepan Razin," with Yevtushenko present, took place at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music in 1998. The first translation of Yevtushenko's poetry into English was Yevtushenko: Selected Poems, by Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (1962). Derived from a Kirkus review: Russian poet, author, and political activist Yevtushenko recalls three days that shook the world-the attempted coup of August 1991-in a richly textured novel that serendipitously blends whimsical love stories, political suspense, and autobiographical commentary. Beginning with a puzzling order for 250,000 handcuffs that Special Investigator Stepan Palchikov is instructed to give the chief of a top-secret installation, the story moves a few months ahead, to August 1991, when Communist hard-liners move to overthrow Gorbachev. As the events of those three days in Moscow unfold, cast members including Yeltsin, Gorbachev, cellist Rostropovich, Foreign Minister Shevardnadze, and Yevtushenko himself make their appearance in separate chapters. Each offers brief reprises of their life, their reasons for appearing on the White House balcony with Yeltsin or for being part of the supportive crowds, and the emotions the coup evokes. Two life stories take center stage, giving the growing political drama a touching, sometimes even sentimental, tenderness. There is the apparatchik Palchikov, whose devotion to politics and work has destroyed his marriage to zoologist Alevtina. Meanwhile, as Alevtina searches for her missing python, Palchikov recalls his past, heroically commits himself to the new order, and determines to woo back his wife. The other story, that of former soccer star Lyza, does not end so happily: Lyza's great crossed love for a woman who adores climbing-even the Kremlin towers-ends tragically on the barricades. Linking them all are the writer's own memories of his Siberian childhood, the KGB's attempts to enlist him, their efforts to discredit him, and his responses to the current changes, which are not always sanguine. Contemporary history given the enlivening, even immortalizing fictional spin that only someone with a poetic sensibility, and someone who was there, can give. And an affecting tribute to a country and its remarkable people. First U. S. Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.