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Travels in Siberia
Contributor(s): Frazier, Ian (Author)
ISBN: 0312610602     ISBN-13: 9780312610609
Publisher: Picador USA
OUR PRICE:   $22.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Travel | Russia
- History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union
Dewey: 957
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.95 lbs) 560 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia
 
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Publisher Description:

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2010
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2010
A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Books of 2010
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Kansas City Star 100 Best Books of 2010
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best of 2010

In this astonishing new work from one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, Ian Frazier trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia. With great passion and enthusiasm, he reveals Siberia's role in history--its science, economics, and politics--and tells the stories of its most famous exiles, such as Dostoyevsky, Lenin, and Stalin. At the same time, Frazier draws a unique portrait of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, and gives a personal account of adventure among Russian friends and acquaintances. A unique, captivating, totally Frazierian take on what he calls the amazingness of Russia--Travels in Siberia is a masterpiece of nonfiction writing--tragic, bizarre, and funny (San Francisco Chronicle).

Contributor Bio(s): Frazier, Ian: - Ian Frazier is the author of Travels in Siberia, Great Plains, On the Rez, Lamentations of the Father and Coyote V. Acme, among other works, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He graduated from Harvard University. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.