The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia
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Published
New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017].
Physical Desc
xix, 149 pages : ill.; 20 cm
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Rico Public Library - NONFICTION
891.78 PET
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891.78 PET
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Coming of age -- Soviet Union.
Communism -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Hotel Metropol (Moscow, Russia) -- History -- 20th century.
Moscow (Russia) -- Biography.
Moscow (Russia) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila -- Childhood and youth.
Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila -- Family.
Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila -- Friends and associates.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Coming of age -- Soviet Union.
Communism -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Hotel Metropol (Moscow, Russia) -- History -- 20th century.
Moscow (Russia) -- Biography.
Moscow (Russia) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila -- Childhood and youth.
Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila -- Family.
Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila -- Friends and associates.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Biography.
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Published
New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017].
Format
Book
Street Date
1702
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Original Russian edition: 2006.
Description
"The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia. Like a young Edith Piaf, wandering the streets singing for alms, and like Oliver Twist, living by his wits, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up watchful and hungry, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation, made more acute by the awareness that her family of Bolshevik intellectuals, now reduced to waiting in bread lines, once lived large across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing--of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the kitchen tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food--we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the more than two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Petrushevskai︠a︡, L. (2017). The girl from the Metropol Hotel: growing up in communist Russia . Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila. 2017. The Girl From the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila. The Girl From the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia Penguin Books, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Petrushevskai︠a︡, Li︠u︡dmila. The Girl From the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia Penguin Books, 2017.
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