On the Golden PorchThirteen stories--by the first woman in years to rank among Russia's most important writers--celebrate courage and the will to endure among the people who live on the periphery of society but who dream with a redeeming passion. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Page 67
... Svetlana's telephone numbers , or that Svetlana reposed , as it turned out , in the number of the accounting department of the social security office . Vassily Mikhailovich's women never did learn of one another's existence ; but of ...
... Svetlana's telephone numbers , or that Svetlana reposed , as it turned out , in the number of the accounting department of the social security office . Vassily Mikhailovich's women never did learn of one another's existence ; but of ...
Page 101
... Svetlana as she pushed her out , crazy and half - dressed as usual , into the autumn fury , into the cold , branch - shaking Moscow mid- night . Rimma , in her nightgown , impatiently shuffled her feet on the doorstep , lifting one foot ...
... Svetlana as she pushed her out , crazy and half - dressed as usual , into the autumn fury , into the cold , branch - shaking Moscow mid- night . Rimma , in her nightgown , impatiently shuffled her feet on the doorstep , lifting one foot ...
Page 107
... Svetlana learned something was up and did not come by for a long time . Then Petyunya disappeared too , and they assumed that Svetlana had taken him off to Perlovka . Anyone who ended up there would be gone for a long time and would ...
... Svetlana learned something was up and did not come by for a long time . Then Petyunya disappeared too , and they assumed that Svetlana had taken him off to Perlovka . Anyone who ended up there would be gone for a long time and would ...
Contents
LOVES ME LOVES ME NOT | 3 |
OKKERVIL RIVER | 17 |
HUNTING THE WOOLY MAMMOTH | 51 |
Copyright | |
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Alexandra Ernestovna Alisa Alkonost Anastasia bird blue cold corner dacha dark door E. M. Forster everything eyes face Fedya feet Filin finger floated flowers fur coat Galya girl glass golden hair hands head horrible hurried Ignatiev Isolde Ivan Nikolayevich kitchen laughed legs Lenochka light listen little Vera live look marry Maryvanna Maxine Hong Kingston morning mother mouth Nanny night Nikolai Okkervil River old woman Panya Pavel Antonovich Perlovka Peters Petya Petyunya pink Pipka processed cheese Rimma rustling Seryozha shouted Simeonov Sirin sleep smell smiling smoke someone Sonya stared Svetlana sweet Tamila Tatyana Tolstaya things trembling turned Uncle Borya Uncle Pasha Valerik Vasilevna Vassily Mikhailovich Vladimir voice W. H. Auden waiting warm waved what's whispered wind window women yellow Yevgeniya Ivanovna Yura Zoya