A Hero in His Time

All his life Yuri Maximovich Isakovsky, minor Russian Jewish poet, editor of a journal of folk music, sometime English translator, has assiduously avoided power and politics--in fact, attention of nay kind. How can it be, then, that the Soviet government has chosen him to attend a conference in the fabled land of bourgeois temptation itself, New York City? And not only that, but to do a 'piece of work' for the KGB, to deliver a code message embedded in the text of a certain poem to be read in public along with his own...

Info autore

Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986), novelist, essayist, and theologian, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in 1973 for In the Days of Simon Stern and the National Jewish Book Award in 1984. His A People Apart was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972. Cohen's novels Acts of Theft and In the Days of Simon Stern are also available in Phoenix Fiction paperback editions from the University of Chicago Press.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Arthur A Cohen, Arthur A. Cohen
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.01.1988
• EAN: 9780226112527
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11252-7
• Pagine: 280
• Dimensioni: 134 mm x 202 mm x 16 mm
• Peso: 272 g
• Serie: Phoenix Fiction
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata