Share
Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)
Alexandra Fleming; Anne Marie Jackson; Boris Dralyuk; Maxim Osipov (Author)
·
Nyrb Classics
· Paperback
Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics) (in English) - Alexandra Fleming; Anne Marie Jackson; Boris Dralyuk; Maxim Osipov
$ 12.57
$ 17.95
You save: $ 5.39
Choose the list to add your product or create one New List
✓ Product added successfully to the Wishlist.
Go to My WishlistsIt will be shipped from our warehouse between
Tuesday, May 14 and
Thursday, May 16.
You will receive it anywhere in United States between 1 and 3 business days after shipment.
Synopsis "Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)"
The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story, recenly profiled in The New YorkerMaxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov’s fiction presents a nuanced, collage-like portrait of life in provincial Russia—its tragedies, frustrations, and moments of humble beauty and inspiration. The twelve stories in this volume depict doctors, actors, screenwriters, teachers, entrepreneurs, local political bosses, and common criminals whose paths intersect in unpredictable yet entirely natural ways: in sickrooms, classrooms, administrative offices and on trains and in planes. Their encounters lead to disasters, major and minor epiphanies, and—on occasion—the promise of redemption.
