Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories

by David Shrayer-Petrov

Book Overview

The powerful voice of David Shrayer-Petrov's immigrant fiction blends Russian, Jewish, and American traditions. Collecting an autobiographical novel and three short stories, Autumn in Yalta brings together the achievements of the great Russian masters Chekhov and Nabokov and the magisterial Jewish and American storytellers Bashevis Singer and Malamud. Shrayer-Petrov's fiction examines the forces and contradictions of love through different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815608209
• ISBN13: 9780815608202
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.7"