On the Golden PorchThirteen stories--by the first woman in years to rank among Russia's most important writers--celebrate courage and the will to endure among the people who live on the periphery of society but who dream with a redeeming passion. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Page 134
... Seryozha ― he hammered , twisting the shoes as small as saucers in his hands , everything falls off the tiny Snow Fairy - and rubbed Lenoch- ka's narrow back with oil of turpentine . He married in fear and delight , hazarding a guess ...
... Seryozha ― he hammered , twisting the shoes as small as saucers in his hands , everything falls off the tiny Snow Fairy - and rubbed Lenoch- ka's narrow back with oil of turpentine . He married in fear and delight , hazarding a guess ...
Page 141
... Seryozha ? Or Petya , Vitya , Yegorushka ? Someone must have seen them putting out a burning boy . She goes , seeking him from town to town . Opens all the doors , knocks at all the windows : have you seen him ? A dark kerchief and ...
... Seryozha ? Or Petya , Vitya , Yegorushka ? Someone must have seen them putting out a burning boy . She goes , seeking him from town to town . Opens all the doors , knocks at all the windows : have you seen him ? A dark kerchief and ...
Page 142
... Seryozha , you're shouting so loudly . Just like Pavel Antonovich . Hush , hush . In her condition , Lenochka needs peace . Lenochka , don't be mad at me . All right , all right , Seryozha . Drive a nail there - to hang up the diapers ...
... Seryozha , you're shouting so loudly . Just like Pavel Antonovich . Hush , hush . In her condition , Lenochka needs peace . Lenochka , don't be mad at me . All right , all right , Seryozha . Drive a nail there - to hang up the diapers ...
Contents
LOVES ME LOVES ME NOT | 3 |
OKKERVIL RIVER | 17 |
HUNTING THE WOOLY MAMMOTH | 51 |
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Alexandra Ernestovna Alisa Alkonost Anastasia bird blue cold corner dacha dark door E. M. Forster everything eyes face Fedya feet Filin finger floated flowers fur coat Galya girl glass golden hair hands head horrible hurried Ignatiev Isolde Ivan Nikolayevich kitchen laughed legs Lenochka light listen little Vera live look marry Maryvanna Maxine Hong Kingston morning mother mouth Nanny night Nikolai Okkervil River old woman Panya Pavel Antonovich Perlovka Peters Petya Petyunya pink Pipka processed cheese Rimma rustling Seryozha shouted Simeonov Sirin sleep smell smiling smoke someone Sonya stared Svetlana sweet Tamila Tatyana Tolstaya things trembling turned Uncle Borya Uncle Pasha Valerik Vasilevna Vassily Mikhailovich Vladimir voice W. H. Auden waiting warm waved what's whispered wind window women yellow Yevgeniya Ivanovna Yura Zoya