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...Petersburg: The Lodging in St. Petersburg agency, tel: (7-812) 272 2742, leases 40 apartments, including a five-room, $300-a-night property near the Winter Palace. Other flats on the main shopping drag, Nevsky Prospekt, start from $100 a night...
...larger South African drama deflated, Coetzee seemed to turn to his private life for inspiration. His son died in a mysterious fall; he wrote The Master of Petersburg, a novel about a father similarly stricken. His ex-wife died of cancer, and he produced Age of Iron, a work that contains some of the most harrowing descriptions of pain ever written. In the mid-'90s, he came forth with autobiographical accounts of his youth, and then came Disgrace (1999), the tale of an arrogant white academic hounded out of his job by the gender police, humiliated by criminals and relegated...
...scratched, the writer cogitated. "I would not wish to deny you your reading," said Coetzee. As the great South African drama deflated, Coetzee seemed to turn to his private life for inspiration. His son died in a mysterious fall from a building; he wrote The Master of Petersburg, a novel about a father similarly stricken. His ex-wife died of cancer, and he produced Age of Iron, with some of the most harrowing descriptions of pain ever written. In 1999 came Disgrace, the tale of a white liberal academic hounded out of his job by the gender police, humiliated...
...Crimson women had three skippers qualify for the North American Singlehanded Championship, which will be held Nov. 22-23 at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg...
...Mango from Baltimore; the audacious Hail Mary - a Tahitian Madonna in a red sarong with the child astride one shoulder - from New York; Philadelphia's stunning There is the Temple, with its daffodil hillside against a cerulean sky, and others from Copenhagen, Buffalo, Madrid, Moscow, Paris and St. Petersburg. The result is a spellbinding symphony of color that's not likely to be seen again for many years - and that's only the first half of the show. The second half, and the remarkable sculpture collection, are just as rich, almost to the end, when the sick and penniless...