Add this copy of Hand to cart. $3.49, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine in NF dj. Giftable. Quarter bound dark blue and royal blue octavo. 261 pp. plus notes. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky. The spy called "The Hand" attempts vengeance against his arch-enemy Gurov but worries about his "soul" which is not recognized in Soviet doctrine.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Minor wear to binding. Light foxing on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
Add this copy of Hand to cart. $12.49, very good condition, Sold by Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newmarket, NH, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Very good in very good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xii + 261 pages, black quarter-cloth. A near fine, generally clean and neat hard cover over all with minor shelf wear; gently read, binding tight, paper cream white with a previous owner's name penned on the front endpaper. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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Add this copy of The Hand: Or, the Confession of an Executioner to cart. $19.00, like new condition, Sold by Brian Bauld (B-Line Books) rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Amherst, NS, CANADA, published 1990 by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0374167702. About new book, unmarked but for faint remainder line; in barely rubbed dj; Joseph Brodsky introduction. 261 pp.
Add this copy of The Hand: Or, the Confession of an Executioner to cart. $19.00, very good condition, Sold by Brian Bauld (B-Line Books) rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Amherst, NS, CANADA, published 1990 by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1990. April 1990. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374167702. Translated from the Russian by Susan Brownsberger. 263 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Liubov Popova, 1918. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. keywords: Europe Russia Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION-Colonel Bashov has been an agent of the Soviet security police for some forty years, and his admiring colleagues call him The Hand: he needs only one large paw to stifle enemies of the people. As Yuz Aleshkovsky's new novel opens, Bashov is savoring a long-awaited day: he has cornered his personal enemy, the venal profiteer Gurov, with whom he intends to settle a decades-old score. In a spectacular monologue-by turns horrifying and hilarious, manic and somber, obscene and reverential-Bashov reveals his and Gurov's interwoven pasts and enumerates Gurov's crimes. Though he digresses constantly, taking Gurov and the reader on a dark romp through absurd episodes in Soviet history, Bashov always circles back to the meaning of his quest for vengeance, and he agonizes over its consequences for the salvation of his soul. The Soviet Union's powers-that-be-force-fed on that diabolical ditty the Internationale-are flunkeys of Satan who do not admit the existence of the soul, for they envy its immortality. Should he kill Gurov as planned, this deformed Russian Count of Monte Cristo will show himself no less a ‘Red Devil' than the rest. YUZ ALESHKOVSKY was born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in 1929. Only after a stint in the armed forces, several years in a labor camp, and a number of odd jobs did he begin his career as a writer. His first books were for children, and he later wrote film and television scripts. He was best known in the Soviet Union, however, for his irreverent samizdat song lyrics; and his reputation in the West rests on such equally irreverent novels as KANGAROO, published here in 1986. Aleshkovsky emigrated from the U.S.S.R. in 1979, and now lives with his family in Connecticut. inventory #13925.
