Isolde

✍ Scribed by Odoevtseva, Irena/ Karetnyk Brian (TRN)/ Steinberg Irina (TRN)

• Publisher: Steerforth Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 109 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Random House Inc 2019
• ISBN: 1782274774

✦ Synopsis

The first English translation of a pioneering Russian writer: a hypnotically dark classic of love, deceit and wayward youth in Paris
Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty and insists upon calling her Isolde; she is taken with his Buick and ability to pay for dinner and champagne.
Disaffected and restless, Liza, her brother Nikolai and her boyfriend Andrei enjoy Cromwell's company in restaurants and jazz bars after he follows Liza back to Paris—until his mother stops giving him money. When the siblings' own mother abandons them to follow a lover to Nice, the group falls deeper into its haze of alcohol, and their darker drives begin to take over.
First published in 1929, Isolde is a startlingly fresh, disturbing portrait of a lost generation of Russian exiles by Irina Odoevtseva, a major Russian writer who has never before...
All Identifiers : isbn:9781782274780
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
Single Author : Irena Odoevtseva
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Sorted Author by LN, FN: Odoevtseva, Irena
Title Length : 006
Title Parm D : Isolde
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ES Lib Name : NIRC 2019-11
Record ID : 10662
Uncomma Author : Irena Odoevtseva
Num of Aut : 1