| A Hero in His Time Contributor(s): Cohen, Arthur A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226112527 ISBN-13: 9780226112527 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1988 Annotation: All his life Yuri Maximovich Isakovsky, minor Russian Jewish poet, editor of a journal of folk music, sometime English translator, has assiduously avoided power and politics--in fact, attention of nay kind. How can it be, then, that the Soviet government has chosen him to attend a conference in the fabled land of bourgeois temptation itself, New York City? And not only that, but to do a 'piece of work' for the KGB, to deliver a code message embedded in the text of a certain poem to be read in public along with his own... |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 87026201 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.27" W x 7.97" (0.60 lbs) 280 pages |
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| Publisher Description: All his life Yuri Maximovich Isakovsky, a minor Russian poet, editor of a journal of folk music, sometime English translator, has assiduously avoided power and politics--in fact, attention of any kind. How can it be, then, that the Soviet government has chosen him to attend a conference in the fabled land of bourgeois temptation itself, New York City? And not only that, but to do a piece of work for the KGB, to deliver a code message embedded in the text of a certain poem to be read in public along with his own . . . Cohen has achieved here a tour de force, bringing the idea of poetry to life in a messy little man, no hero at all, not even that much of a poet. . . . The novel] is stately as well as funny, an authentically noble account of a celebrant. . . . It is the true article.--Geoffrey Wolff, New York Times Book Review Arthur Cohen catches fire. . . . A Hero in His Time represents for him a great imaginative leap, for we are shown the interior mental landscape of a middle-aged Russian-Jewish minor poet and . . . most astonishing is that we believe, without question, in this poet.--Doris Grumbach, Village Voice A tremendous achievement. . . . To have made this tremendous imaginative leap from the heart of American Jewishness to the heart of Russian Jewishness was a daring thing to do, and it has been accomplished with absolute conviction.--The Sunday Times (London) A rich compound of high seriousness and robust comedy.--Newsweek |