Glory
Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal...
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Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds--but at a terrible cost.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679727248 (0679727248)
ASIN: 679727248
Publish date: November 5th 1991
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Russia,
Russian Literature
I was reading Glory on the Heathrow to Cambridge bus sometime in 1999, and the guy sitting on the other side of the aisle introduced himself. He was in the middle of writing a PhD on Nabokov and had recently read it himself. We talked about Glory for a few minutes (as far as I can recall, we agreed ...
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