Stalin's Nose: Across the Face of Europe
by MacLean, Rory
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 000215871X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002158718
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
Item Price
NZ$24.86NZ$17.40
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: HarperCollins, 1992. Book won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work award. It was chosen as a Book of the Year and short listed for the Thomas Cook/'Daily Telegraph Travel Book Prize. "A journey in a decrepit Trabant, in the company of a theatrically eccentric aunt, a Tamworth pig and (in Czechoslovakia) the coffin of a long-dead pilot strapped to the roof cannot be the stuff of literal reality. The reader is invited, instead, into a stark, hyper-real world. 'Stalin's Nose' is not so much a travelogue as the intense distillation of a journey, and its crazy progress becomes an allegory of the tortured countries through which the travellers go. For this is the Eastern Europe of 1989-90, emerging from its Communist nightmare into a world of smoke and mirrors, confronted by its own delusions and half-truths, hypocrisies and self-blindings. Nazism and Stalinism have become interchangeable myths, bodied out in personal lives." CONDITION Map eps, 211 pages. Bright and crisp as new in unworn DJ. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. @.
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- Bookseller
- Ariel Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13804
- Title
- Stalin's Nose: Across the Face of Europe
- Author
- MacLean, Rory
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 000215871X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002158718
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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