Word: borzoi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distinguished Russian-born novelist Vadim Vadimych N., a cranky exquisite who laments piteously the high initial cost and outrageous maintenance expense of owning an artistic soul. This gent, at the time of writing, is a formidable old illusion-monger with a high, rounded forehead and the vanity of a borzoi. He was born a prince. Bounced from home and privilege by the revolution, he studied at Cambridge, and then, under the pseudonym V. Irisin, wrote in Russian a number of novels "of not altogether displeasing preciosity" while living in Paris as an exile. These books took such themes...
...York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. A Borzoi Book...