Escape Hatch

by Vladimir Makanin

Book Overview

These characters are caught in surreal situations which test their ability to retain their humanity. Makanin's world is one of deliberate ambiguity, where nothing, not even the story itself, is as it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375701087
• ISBN13: 9780375701085
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A quick, absorbing, read

I haven't gotten to "The Long Road Ahead" yet, but the first novella, "Escape Hatch" was so moving and engrossing that I finished it (after an intense morning with it glued to my fingers) changed. What struck me most about the work is how it refuses to pass judgement on its characters-- no one is good or evil, but everyone is lost, everyone is stuck in a world they don't want to be in. And the passages with the retarded son were especially touching. Read this story.