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9781590175859 | New York Review of Books, November 13, 2012, cover price $14.95 | also contains Happy Moscow
9780160671302, titled "Minerals Yearbook: Area Reports: Domestic 2000" | United States Government Printing, March 1, 2002, cover price $46.00 | also contains Happy Moscow, Happy Moscow, Minerals Yearbook: Area Reports: Domestic 2000
Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalinâs words, Âlife has become better, life has become merrierâ. In Happy Moscow Platonov exposes the gulf between this premature triumphalÂism and the harsh reality of low living standards and even lower expectations. For in Stalinâs ideal city there is no longer a place for those who do not fit the bright, shining image of the new men and women of the future. The heroine, Moscow Chestnova, is an Everywoman, both virgin and whore, who flits from man to man, fascinated by the brave new world supposedly taking shape around her. In a variety of styles ranging from the grotesque to the sentimental to the absurd, Platonov lays bare the ways in which language itself has been debased, even borrowing slogans from Stalinâs own speeches for comic effect.
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9781590175859 | New York Review of Books, November 13, 2012, cover price $14.95 | also contains Happy Moscow
9781846553424 | Random House Uk Ltd, February 1, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalinâs words, Âlife has become better, life has become merrierâ.
9780160671302, titled "Minerals Yearbook: Area Reports: Domestic 2000" | United States Government Printing, March 1, 2002, cover price $46.00 | also contains Happy Moscow, Happy Moscow, Minerals Yearbook: Area Reports: Domestic 2000
Paperback:
9780160671302, titled "Minerals Yearbook: Area Reports: Domestic 2000" | United States Government Printing, March 1, 2002, cover price $46.00 | also contains Happy Moscow, Happy Moscow, Minerals Yearbook: Area Reports: Domestic 2000
9781860466465 | Harvill Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $19.99
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9788437625645 | Rev tra edition (Catedra Ediciones, May 1, 2009), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: New product.
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9780882333090 | Ardis, June 1, 1978, cover price $17.50
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9788437616841 | Italian edition edition (Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 1998), cover price $32.95
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9788420630021 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD
Product Description: An epic story about the search for happiness, of longing to lead, yet needing to follow, and of learning about oneself. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781843430384 | Harvill Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An epic story about the search for happiness, of longing to lead, yet needing to follow, and of learning about oneself.
Product Description: This collection of Platonov's short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing novella Dzahn ("Soul"), in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech, and "The Potudan River," Platonov's most celebrated story...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780940322332 | New York Review of Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This collection of Platonov's short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career.
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9788481092677 | Italian edition edition (Galaxia Gutenberg, June 30, 1999), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Excelente colección de relatos de un escritor que marcó con su obra las generaciones de autores rusos posteriores.
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9781860465161 | Harvill Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $22.95
Platonov's brilliant nightmarish novel describes the lives of a group of industrial workers who, in digging out the foundation pit for a huge commercial apartment block, really believe they are laying the foundations for the radiant future. Then some of them are ordered to kickstart 'collectivisation' (collective ownership of farming land) in a village of reluctant peasants, and what had begun in optimism quickly turns to hallucination and murder. Platonov shows his understanding of the dehumanising effects of Soviet jargon, shows how collectivisation led to the starvation of whole villages and the exile of whole populations and he succeeds in taking back control of language to serve vital purposes of communication and freedom.
Hardcover:
9781860460494 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Platonov's brilliant nightmarish novel describes the lives of a group of industrial workers who, in digging out the foundation pit for a huge commercial apartment block, really believe they are laying the foundations for the radiant future.
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9781590173053 | New York Review of Books, April 21, 2009, cover price $14.95
9781860460500 | Harvill Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Platonov's brilliant nightmarish novel describes the lives of a group of industrial workers who, in digging out the foundation pit for a huge commercial apartment block, really believe they are laying the foundations for the radiant future.
9780810111455 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, May 1, 1994), cover price $16.00
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9780686885085 | Silver Age Pub, December 1, 1990, cover price $8.00
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9780828524179 | Firebird Pubns, March 1, 1984, cover price $4.00
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9780876140321 | Carolrhoda Books, May 1, 1973, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A beautiful girl travels over deserts and mountains in search of the handsome prince whom her sisters had injured.
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