Word: memoire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very big catch indeed. He had been in a lot of key places deep inside the Soviet apparatus at key times--places where we rarely get any kind of glimpse at all. He had a lot to tell us." Now, seven years later, he is telling the world. His memoir, Breaking with Moscow, is to be published this month (Knopf; 378 pages; $18.95). A resident of Washington, Shevchenko lives comfortably off lecture fees ($6,000 to $12,000 a speech). His American wife Elaine, whom he married in late 1978, helped him write his book...
...most sensational revelation in Shevchenko's memoir is that he had been working as an agent-in-place for the CIA for 2 1/2 years before his defection. But the book is far more than a true-life spy story. It is rich in insights into the life of the Soviet elite, the personal rivalries and bureaucratic infighting, the sycophancy and nepotism, and the workings of Kremlin policymaking. Examples...
Nonetheless, as this affecting memoir demonstrates, chemistry in the right hands can be a powerful muse. For Levi, every compound has a distinctive personality. Hydrochloric acid "is one of those frank enemies that come at you shouting from a distance . . . After having taken in one breath of it you expel from your nose two short plumes of white smoke, like the horses in Eisenstein's movies." Chemistry's periodic table, which arranges the elements according to their atomic number, is Levi's metaphor for the relationships that compose a human life. The Periodic Table consists of 21 episodes, most...
Will Bobby go public with the truth? Will he create a new scandal with his love affair? In his first novel, Jordan, author of a poignant memoir about minor-league baseball, A False Spring, continues to show a canny sense of time and place. His descriptions of the stressful world of the freelance, his evocations of athletes' bars, locker rooms and motels have verisimilitude and humor. True, Jordan's plot, like his characters, is a bit worn, but it is also, like them, wholly credible...
HOME BEFORE DARK by Susan Cheever. A revealing and poignant memoir of the author John Cheever by his sorrowing and sometimes bitter daughter...