A Russian Journal - Couverture rigide

John Steinbeck / Robert Capa

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670612995 ISBN 13 : 9780670612994

Editeur : The Viking Press, 1948

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First edition of this collaborative work written at the height of Steinbeck\'s success and popularity. A post-war travelogue of pre-Cold War Russian life which portrays all the humanity shown in his recent publication \'The Grapes of Wrath\'. Produced in collaboration with the leading documentary photographer of the day Robert Capa whose fine photographs illustrate throughout

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A RUSSIAN JOURNAL is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document. Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II. This is an intimate glimpses of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle

Biographie de l'auteur :

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

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