HALF A REVOLUTION: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press, (1995). First edition - An anthology collecting the writings of 9 women, edited and translated by Masha Gessen. preface by Olga Lipovskaya. "The same openness that welcomed McDonald's has unmuzzled women's voices and admitted previously unspeakable notions - mystical beliefs, equal wages for women, homosexuality - into Russia's vocabulary and into the tumultuous re-formation of its identity. But, for all that is new, these women honor their roots. The decaying housing complex in Galina Volodina's compassionate tale of bickering, corruption and failure recalls Gogol's doss-house. Turgenev would recognize the insistent details Marina Paley uses to underline the spiritual isolation and selfishness in a provincial hospital; and Valeria Narbikova's six-dimensional journeys over Moscow float very close to the fantastic spaces of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita. In the tradition of great pre-Soviet writers, these authors focus on ordinary lives where fear and pettiness outweigh nobler motives." (Publisher's Weekly) 269 pp. ISBN: 1-57344006X.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.