One of the most remarkable changes taking place in Russia after the break-up of the Soviet empire is the radical transformation of Russian women's culture. Despite a historically male dominated culture, gender awareness has flourished in the 1990s, and is reflected in a new body of women's literature and a new concern for female experience. The prose and poetry included in this anthology examine essential issues in women's lives: women's sexuality, romantic love, motherhood, the economic and political life of women, their struggle to integrate domestic and professional roles, new family structures, physical health, abortion, rape, and so forth.
Twenty-five writers are represented here, ranging from young to old, new to established, avant garde to traditional. The newer writing has challenged earlier thematic and stylistic prohibitions and this entered into a stimulating dialogue with more traditional work, as Helena Goscilo points out in her informative introduction. Thus, when the heroines of "First Try" and "Bus Driver Astap" act against accepted moral codes, they suffer physical punishment, but the heroines in the stories by Sadur and Palei inhabit structures with completely new rules.
Russian culture has produced great women artists and writers, and there is a growing appreciation today for the body of literature created by its female writers. This anthology offers the reader fascinating insights into the contemporary world of Russian women and introduces some major new talents.
Helena Goscilo is Chairman of the Slavic Department at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the leading scholars in the field of Russian women's culture. Her works include Fruits of Her Plume Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture; Balancing Acts; and Russian and Polish Women's Fiction. She is also co-editor of the anthologies Glasnost and The Wild Beach two collections of Russian prose from the 1980s.

Lives in Transit: A Collection of Recent Russian Women's Writing (Ardis Russian Literature Series)

Literature & Fiction

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Pollono, John

13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

MOERS, WALTER

Humor & Satire

Since the initial publication of the first three groundbreaking volumes -- Horror, Science Fiction, and The Western -- The Overlook Film Encyclopedia series has been deemed the most authoritative, stylish, and compulsively readable film reference series ever. In The Gangster Film, series editor Phil Hardy has created yet again a landmark in film reference.
Included in this lavish volume are critical entries on more than 1,500 gangster films, complete with plot synapses and credits, and 650 black and white photographs to capture the look of this exciting genre. Arranged chronologically, The Gangster Film offers deliciously opinionated and detailed descriptions, statistical information, credits and trivia from early classics such as Public Enemy, Key Largo, Dragnet, and On the Waterfront to contemporary blockbusters such as The Grifters, Chinatown, The Godfather, and Pulp Fiction. Essential, authoritative, and entertaining, The Gangster Film is the guide for serious students of film, film buffs, and home viewers.

The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Phil Hardy

Movies

The Kinks lead singer and song writer tells the story of his life and career to a nameless writer hired by "the Corporation" to be the rock singer's biographer

X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

DAVIES, Ray

A trio of witty mysteries featuring the adventures and exploits of the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai, a degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, epicurean, assassin, and general knave, includes Don't Point That Thing at Me, After Your with the Pistol, and Something Nasty in the Woodshed. Original.

The Mortdecai Trilogy

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bonfiglioli, Kyril

Mystery

A compellingly inspirational memoir of a young woman confronting the battle of her life with hope, humor, and style.

My So-Called Normal Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Zammett, Erin

Memoirs

This marvelous collection of Yiddish classics, some never  before translated into English, offers the full and wonderfully vivid  panoply of shtetl life from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.  Written by such masters as Sholom Aleichem, Aksenfeld, Moykher-Sforim,  Yitzik Leyb Peretz, Rabbi Nakhman, and Der Nister, this unique collection  includes not only early religious writings and engaging Hassidic yarns but  also colorful stories of latterday realism, fantasy, and satire. Humor and  suffering, faith and rationalist parody, romantic love and sordid  cruelty--a panorama of shtetl life unfolds before us, conjuring up all the  colors of a bygone world.

The Shtetl: A Creative Anthology of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe

History & Criticism

White Rose Rebel tells the riveting and turbulent story of the historical figure known as Colonel Anne--Scottish heroine and female "Braveheart"--who risked everything for the love of her country and its rightful king. Anne Farquharson, a tempestuous and independentminded daughter of Scotland, is elated when the Jacobites rebel in 1745, fighting to regain the Stuart throne of Scotland for Bonnie Prince Charlie, and horrified when her husband, Aeneas Macintosh, joins the English army. She raises his clan and, with her previous lover at her side, joins the uprising to become its legendary Colonel Anne. Incorporating fascinating historical detail about the military role of Scottish women during the eighteenth century, Janet Paisley creates a marvelously entertaining tale of this extraordinary young woman who used her heart, sexuality, intellect, and sword to defend her people. Rich in intrigue and period detail and with a compelling cast of characters certain to captivate fans of Philippa Gregory, White Rose Rebel marks the exciting debut of a wonderfully fresh and vivid voice in historical fiction, as it explores the grand themes of civil war, women's rights and national identity, love and marital discord, loyalty and betrayal.

White Rose Rebel: A Novel of the Female "Braveheart"

Paisley, Janet

Contemporary

Milton Glaser: Graphic Design

Gathers designs for posters, books and book covers, album covers, and typefaces, and includes the artist's comments

Arts & Photography

GLASER, Milton

Graphic Design

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