Volume 37, Number 9 · May 31, 1990

Notes from Underground

By Tatyana Tolstaya, Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope
by Francine du Plessix Gray

Doubleday, 213 pp., $19.95

During the two weeks I spent in the United States at least forty people asked me: 'And what do you think about this book?' The person asking the question would simply point at it, without mentioning the author or title—the assumption seemed to be that it was obviously the book worth talking about at the moment. It was given to me twice during my stay.



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