A Hero in His Time

by Arthur Allen Cohen and Cohen, Arthur Allen,

Book Overview

All his life Yuri Maximovich Isakovsky, a minor Russian poet, editor of a journal of folk music, sometime English translator, has assiduously avoided power and politics--in fact, attention of any kind. How can it be, then, that the Soviet government has chosen him to attend a conference in the fabled land of bourgeois temptation itself, New York City? And not only that, but to do a "piece of work" for the KGB, to deliver a code message embedded in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00507IYZG
• ISBN13: 9780226112527
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Cohen's post-holocaust neverland

Cohen died (sadly) too young, and too long ago, for most modern readers to enjoy his stories. the central character in this story had enough flaws to be infuriating and endearing, even if the story tended to drift.