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The Woman Who Walked to Russia

The Woman Who Walked to Russia

by Cassandra Pybus

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 238 PAGES

A journey in the footsteps of the remarkable Lillian Alling, a refugee from Russia and bon vivant in 1920s Yiddishkeit who, homesick, sets off across America with a hand-drawn map. The Australian author's own jounrey is in the company of her friend Gerry. Amy Bloom uses the particulars and geography of Alling in her novel Away (USA162).  (PNW205, $14.00)

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Away, A Novel

Away, A Novel


by Amy Bloom

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

With spare, stunning prose, Bloom draws the reader into 1920s Yiddish New York, rough-and-tough Seattle and the Alaskan wilderness in this tender, absorbing tale of a young Russian immigrant's quest to reunite with her daughter in Siberia. (USA162, $15.00)


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