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"A subtly crafted reflection of both the bleak and golden shadings of Russian life . . . Its tones belong more to the realm of poetry than journalism." –The New York Times Book Review
At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for his eight months' study at Moscow State University and an additional two months in Leningrad. Published to enormous critical acclaim in 1981, Russian Journal is the award-winning author's penetrating, vivid account of her everyday life as an expatriate in Soviet culture, chronicling her fascinating exchanges with journalists, diplomats, and her Soviet contemporaries. The winner of the Jean Stein Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters–and the book that launched Lee's career as a writer–Russian Journal is a beautiful and clear-eyed travel-writing classic.
"[Lee] takes us wherever she is, conveying a feeling of place and atmosphere that is the mark of real talent."
–The Washington Post Book World
"A book of very great charm . . . [Lee] records what she saw and heard with unassuming delicacy and exactness."
–Newsweek
"An endlessly, surprising record of the kind of Soviet life almost never explored by conventional journalists."--Chicago Sun Times
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Noriyuki Shirahata
reviewed Russian Journal on October 04, 2007 Russian Journal
Bought this at the Wards Corner bookstore back when I used to scour it every weekend for used books. I was fascinated with Russia at the time and actually paid for a brand new hardback book (I think I bought Nicholas and Alexandra around then as well). It was completely worth the money, too, as I reread it constantly. Over the years I wondered what happened to Lee and her husband (Googling suggests they've divorced and she's remarried) and all the people she met, especially in the post-Soviet era.
A snapshot of a time that was coming to an end, sooner than any of us might have expected.
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