Isolde
Odoevt︠s︡eva, Irina, 1895-19902019
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Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty and insists upon calling her Isolde; she is taken with his Buick and ability to pay for dinner and champagne. Disaffected and restless, Liza, her brother Nikolai and her boyfriend Andrei enjoy Cromwell's company in restaurants and jazz bars after he follows Liza back to Paris - until his mother stops giving him money. When the siblings' own mother abandons them to follow a lover to Nice, the group falls deeper into its haze of alcohol, and their darker drives begin to take over.
Main title:
Isolde / Irina Odoevtseva ; translated by Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinberg ; introduction by Bryan Karetnyk.
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Imprint:
London : Pushkin Press, 2019.
Collation:
256 pages
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9781782274773 (pbk)
Dewey class:
891.734F
LC class:
PG3476.O22
Language:
EnglishRussian
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BRN:
2474084