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Parallel lives : a love story from a lost continent

Parallel lives : a love story from a lost continent

Pears, Iain, author.
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"Best-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulous book brings into sharp focus the strange world of the Soviet Union, and the even stranger world of a certain variety of the English elite. It seeks to show how leaving the Soviet Union was a sacrifice for her and how it was the English man, not th...

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Art historians Biography
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Haskell, Francis, 1928-2000
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ISBN:
9781324073772
Edition:
First American edition
Description:
xv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-261) and index
Contents:
Larissa : background, birth and childhood, 1931-1941
Francis : background, birth and education, 1928-1946
Larissa : siege, evacuation, return, 1941-1944
Francis : Paris, Army, Cambridge, 1946-1952
Larissa : school, academy, hermitage, 1944-1962
Francis : Italy, 1952-1962
Larissa and the Biennale, 1962
Francis : London and Cambridge, 1953-1962
Meeting, 1962
Encounters, 1963-1965
Departure and arrival, 1965
Finale
Control Number:
3382689
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