Word: manuiloff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DANCER'S CAT?C. A. Nicholson?Bobbs-Merrill ($2). An ostentatiously esoteric tale, the core of which may or may not be the weird relationship between a young Russian dancer, Lydie Manuiloff, and her Siamese cat, Pasha. Besides this problem in comparative psychiatry, there is a remarkably fine exposition of British and Russian reticences in conflict. Lydie and her English friends are all truth-tellers, but all carry the suppressions of their cultures. Lydie understands, is tolerant of their kind of truth. Her kind hurts them. In addition she is suspected of poisoning her fiance with fish that was actually...
| 1 |