In this collection of short stories, Stanislas M. Yassukovich has indulged his taste for nostalgic reverie. The tales are inspired by the people and places the author has encountered during a lifetime spent in cosmopolitan circles. The quirks of fate that move people from an apparently predestined course of life have provoked his imagination. Stanislas has drawn on a variety of conditions and personalities to colour his stories with the shades and lights of human existence. Pursuing a distinguished career as an international investment banker, Stanislas found relief from the pressures of business by writing fiction. He makes no apology for the fact that his characters and their settings invoke past times; the joys and disappointments described are common to all humankind. The personages portrayed are mostly from privileged backgrounds - but then so is the author. Stanislas has sought to convey his own view of life's vagaries through a stylistic prose which is itself reminiscent of writers of former times. The reader will find that the author's evocations linger on.

Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Stanislas M. Yassukovich

Short Stories & Anthologies

Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.

Lives of the Luberon

Product Description Stanislas Yassukovich is an investment banker who spent some 20 years visiting and living with his family in the Luberon, the region of France made famous by the late Peter Mayle's seminal work, A Year in Provence. In his new book, Yassukovich chronicles his experiences, impressions and adventures in this unique corner of La Belle France, together with reminiscences of the fascinating and cosmopolitan characters who reside there permanently or part time. His anecdotal evocation of the great variety of elements that make this region one of the most sought after, in a country rich in holiday destinations, will entertain both those who know the area and those who don't yet. Malika Moine is a Provençal artist who has published several books of her water colours in Marseille. Her illustrations of the villages of the Luberon make the book, and the region, even more irresistible. About the Author Stanislas Yassukovich was born in Paris to a Russian émigré father and a French mother. After being educated in the United States, he settled in England, pursued a career in the City and is regarded as one of the founders of the international capital market. He was made a Commander of the British Empire, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Freeman of the City of London. His previous work, Two Lives: A Social and Financial Memoir, was published by Austin Macauley in 2016. He is married to the former Diana Townsend and has three children, Tatyana, Michael and Nicholas. Malika Moine, the illustrator, was born and brought up in the Luberon and moved to Marseilles after schooling, to study history. She switched to art training in jewellery, sculpture and painting, and then travelled extensively, drawing towns, landscapes and their inhabitants. She has published four books of watercolours of cafés, restaurants and artisan studios of Marseilles: Tournée Générale, Croquis Croquant, Coeurs a L'Ouvrage and Croquis Croquant - La Suite (with chef's recipes). She publishes annual calendars of Marseilles and recently published one of Rockford.

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Austin Macauley

Stanislas Yassukovich is an investment banker who spent some 20 years visiting and living with his family in the Luberon, the region of France made famous by the late Peter Mayle's seminal work, A Year in Provence. In his new book, Yassukovich chronicles his experiences, impressions and adventures in this unique corner of La Belle France, together with reminiscences of the fascinating and cosmopolitan characters who reside there permanently or part time. His anecdotal evocation of the great variety of elements that make this region one of the most sought after, in a country rich in holiday destinations, will entertain both those who know the area and those who don't yet. Malika Moine is a Proven&#65533;al artist who has published several books of her water colours in Marseille. Her illustrations of the villages of the Luberon make the book, and the region, even more irresistible.

Dimitri Yassukovich is exiled by the Bolshevik Revolution, builds a new life and career as a Wall Street investment banker, and lays the foundations in Europe for one of the great investment banking houses of the City. His son Stanislas, after an inglorious youth in the Gatsby land of Long Island, joins his father's firm White, Weld &amp; Co., finds himself at the epicentre of the City's revival from postwar doldrums, and becomes an architect of the Euromarkets. His highly personal and anecdotal chronicle of these two lives leads us through the history of high finance and its revival, and the heady days of the internationalisation of the City, through the ‘Big Bang' and its aftermath. Two Lives is a serious, and yet light-hearted account of a critical period in 20th century finance and of two unusual personalities.

Two Lives: A Social and Financial Memoir

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Short Stories

Lives of the Luberon

Lives of the Luberon

Two Lives: A Social and Financial Memoir