Nicholas Dawidoff, The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World (Book Review)

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Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2006-06-22
Genre: Geschichte

Beschreibung

Nicholas Dawidoff, The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World. ix +353 pp. New York: Pantheon, 2002. ISBN 0375400273, $26.00 (cloth). Reprinted as The Fly Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional Character. 368 pp. New York: Vintage Books, 2003. ISBN 0375700064, $14.95 (paper). Page references are to the cloth edition. Loren R. Graham, Moscow Stories. 305 pp., illus. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. ISBN 0253347165. $22.95.

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