Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third of four improvisational novels dedicated to Pushkin, by this writer who is also a poet and translator. Set in present day Leningrad, Rome and London, in Stalin's Moscow and in St Petersburg of the Czars, this is a novel of the war between truth and lies, between love and betrayal. A title in the publisher's International Fiction List. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-886191467.