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The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev: The Story of Lina and Serge Prokofiev
Simon Morrison
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Description for The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev: The Story of Lina and Serge Prokofiev
Paperback. Lina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang. The caller insisted that she come downstairs to collect a parcel, but when she reached the courtyard she was arrested for treason. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; AVGC6; BGF; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.
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Lina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang. The caller insisted that she come downstairs to collect a parcel, but when she reached the courtyard she was arrested for treason.
First enraptured by the young pianist and rising star, Serge Prokofiev, during a courtship in Brooklyn, then abandoned by him in Moscow, Lina survived one of the darkest periods in Soviet history – enduring eight years in the Gulag after she received that fateful telephone call.
Unfolding with the intrigue ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099581789
SKU
V9780099581789
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Simon Morrison
Simon Morrison is Professor of Music History at Princeton, where he earned his PhD in musicology. He is the author of The People’s Artist, a definitive account of Prokofiev’s career after his fateful return to the Soviet Union in 1936, along with numerous articles and essays in leading scholarly journals, and features for the New York Times. Morrison was awarded ... Read more
Reviews for The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev: The Story of Lina and Serge Prokofiev
Unforgettable as a testimony of personal devotion
John Carey
Sunday Times
Morrison tells a good story, without excess or indulgence, and with touching empathy for his heroine
Guardian
Immensely readable and entertaining
Amanda Foreman
New Statesman
Morrison writes excellently... As much a story of personal tragedy and disappointment as it is a ... Read more
John Carey
Sunday Times
Morrison tells a good story, without excess or indulgence, and with touching empathy for his heroine
Guardian
Immensely readable and entertaining
Amanda Foreman
New Statesman
Morrison writes excellently... As much a story of personal tragedy and disappointment as it is a ... Read more