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Author:

880-01 Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila author.

Title:

Jacob's ladder / Ludmila Ulitskaya ; translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Families--Soviet Union--Fiction.
Soviet Union--History--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Gannon, Mary Catherine, 1953- translator.

Other Titles:

880-02 Lestnit︠s︡a I︠A︡kova. English

Contents:

The willow chest (1975) -- The watchmaker's shop on Mariinsko-Blagoveshchenskaya (1905-1907) -- From the willow chest: the diary of Jacob Ossetsky (1910) -- Closing down Chekhov (1974) -- A new project (1974) -- Classmates (1955-1963) -- From the willow chest: the diary of Jacob Ossetsky (1911) -- The garden of giants (1958-1974) -- Admirers (1975-1976) -- Froebel-miss (1907-1910) -- A letter from Mikhail Kerns to his sister Marusya (1910) -- One-of-a-kind Yurik: Yahoos and Houyhnhnms (1976-1981) -- A major year (1911) -- A female line (1975-1980) -- Unaccommodated man (1981) -- A secret marriage (1911) -- From the willow chest: Jacob's notebook (1911) -- Marusya's letters (December 1911) -- First grade: fingernails (1982) -- From the willow chest: Jacob's letters: volunteer Ossetsky (1911-1912) -- A happy year (1985) -- From the willow chest: letters from and to the Urals (October 1912-May 1913) -- A new direction (1976-1982) -- Carmen (1985) -- The diamond door (1986) -- From the willow chest: the correspondence of Jacob and Marusya (May 1913-January 1914) -- Nora in America: visiting Vitya and Martha (1987) -- The left hand (1988-1989) -- The birth of Genrikh (1916) -- Endings (1988-1989) -- A boat to the other shore (1988-1991) -- From the willow chest: family correspondence (1916) -- Kiev/Moscow (1917-1925) -- Yurik in America (1991-2000) -- Letters from Marusya to Jacob: Sudak (July-August 1925) -- Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1999-2000) -- Uzun-syrt STP (1925-1933) -- First exile: Stalingrad tractor plant (1931-1933) -- Yurik comes home (January 2000) -- From the willow chest biisk: Jacob's letters (1934-1936) -- Letters from the willow chest: war (1942-1943) -- Fifth try (2000-2009) -- Family secrets (1936-1937) -- Variations on a theme: the fiddler on the roof (1992) -- With Mikhoels (1945-1948) -- Reunion in Moscow (2003) -- Theater of shadows (2010) -- Liberation (1955) -- The birth of a new Jacob (2011) -- The archives (2011).

Summary:

"A Tolstoyan family saga spanning a century of Russian history and asking questions about the nature of identity and talent"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0374293651
9780374293659

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1053570867

LCCN:

2018050162

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)