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9780307270634 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 22, 2011, cover price $30.00
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9780028740522 | Free Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A Russian emigre draws a panoramic view of the cosmopolitan culture that thrived over three centuries in Russia's 'Gateway to the West,' producing such figures as Stravinsky, Nabokov, Balanchine, and Chagall
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9781400042722 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 4, 2008, cover price $30.00
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9781400077861 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 10, 2009), cover price $18.95
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9780316861410 | Gardners Books, March 25, 2004, cover price $26.40 | About this edition: 'Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that'.
Considers how Joseph Stalin's unpredictable persecution of artists influenced the life and work of the avant-garde composer, tracing Shostakovich's struggles to remain faithful to his music in spite of attacks on his contemporaries and Stalin's contradictory banning and support of his work. 20,000 first printing.
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9780375410826 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Presents the often tumultuous relationship between Shostakovich and Stalin, with Shostakovich striving to remain true to his musical ideals, at the same that he had to deal with the machinations and instability of Stalin.
Product Description: Joseph Brodsky's life was epic in scope. From imprisonment in the Soviet Union and subsequent flight to the West to a new beginning in the United States and international fame -- culminating in a Nobel Prize -- Brodsky is one of the most fascinating literary figures of our time...read more
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9780743236393 | Free Pr, January 15, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Joseph Brodsky's life was epic in scope.
A portrait of Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodskey is painted through fifteen years of interviews with the author, depicting his childhood years in war-torn Leningrad, his time in Kruschev's Russia, and his love of the work of fellow poets Auden and Frost. 20,000 first printing.
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9780684835723 | Free Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A portrait of poet Joseph Brodsky is painted through fifteen years of interviews with the author, depicting his childhood in war-torn Leningrad and his time in Khruschev's Russia
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9780385423878 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, October 1, 1992), cover price $11.00
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9780805009743 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author looks back on his early life in Russia, his career as a violinist, and his memories of the composers, conductors and musicians with whom he has worked
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9780879101510 | Limelight Editions, October 1, 1991, cover price $14.95
The musical titan of Soviet Russia recalls musicians, artists, writers, conversations with Stalin, and seesawing ideologies
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9780879100216 | 7th edition (Proscentium Pub, May 1, 2000), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The musical titan of Soviet Russia recalls musicians, artists, writers, conversations with Stalin, and seesawing ideologies
9780571118298 | Gardners Books, September 1, 1981, cover price $20.05 | About this edition: (Limelight).
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9780060908126 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 1980), cover price $4.95
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