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The riddle of life and death / Tillie Olsen and Leo Tolstoy ; with an introduction by Jules Chametzky.
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- Series:
- 2x2 (New York, N.Y.)
- 2x2
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007.
- Summary:
- Masters of short fiction illumine questions of pain, suffering, medicine, fate, and, most starkly, "Why am I dying?" Circling in psychological time, Tillie Olsen depicts the death of a working-class grandmother, a past proletarian revolutionary in Russia, and how her death devastates her family in mid-twentieth-century America. Leo Tolstoy's cancer-ravaged Czarist bureaucrat weighs his life, searching for semblances of meaning in a linear, realistic story. B Tillie Olsen is the prize-winning author of Tell Me a Riddle, Silences, and Yonnondio: From the Thirties.B B Leo Tolstoy wrote numerous short stories as well as the immortal War and Peace.B B B B B B
- Contents:
- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Olsen, Tillie. Tell me a riddle.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Smertʹ Ivana Ilʹicha. English
- Death of Ivan Ilych.
- ISBN:
- 9781558615366
- 1558615369
- OCLC:
- 71426979
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