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Books by Jamey Gambrell
  | | Earthly Signs(Reprint) Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 (New York Review Books Classics) by Marina Tsvetaeva, Jamey Gambrell Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-162-7, ISBN: 1-68137-162-6 "A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution.Marina Tsvetaeva ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic culmination of a life buffeted by political upheaval. The essays collected in this volume are based on diaries she kept during the turbulent years ..." |
 | | Day of the Oprichnik(Reprint) A Novel by Vladimir Sorokine, Jamey Gambrell Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2012 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53310-6, ISBN: 0-374-53310-5 "One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011Moscow, 2028. A cold, snowy morning.Andrei Danilovich Komiaga is fast asleep. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull him out of his drunken stupor—but wait, that's just his ring tone. And so begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar's most trusted courtiers—and one of the country's most feared men.Welcome to the new New Russia, where futuristic technology and ..." |
 | | Ice Trilogy(Reprint) (New York Review Books Classics) by Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell Paperback, 704 Pages, Published 2011 by Nyrb Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-386-2, ISBN: 1-59017-386-4 "Ice-which recounted the escapades of a group of blond, blueeyed homicidal fanatics, the so-called Brotherhood of Light, who consider themselves the chosen people and the rest of humanity so many expendable "meat machines"-was a gritty, blistering tale of contemporary Moscow at its most unhinged and violent. Written from the point of view of the sect, Ice now appears as the central panel of Vladimir Sorokin's enormously ambitious and ..." |
 | | In Search of the Free Individual The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul (Distinguished Speakers Series) by Svetlana Alexievich, Jamey Gambrell Paperback, 42 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2690-3, ISBN: 1-5017-2690-0 ""I love life in its living form, life that’s found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In poetic language, Alexievich traces the origins of her deeply affecting blend of journalism, oral history, and creative writing.Cornell Global Perspectives is an imprint of Cornell University’s ..." |
 | | The Bridge Over the Neroch And Other Works by Leonid G. Tsypkin, Jamey Gambrell Paperback, 346 Pages, Published 2013 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1661-6, ISBN: 0-8112-1661-6 "From the acclaimed author of Summer in Baden-Baden, a collection of short work finally in English.Leonid Tsypkin’s novel Summer in Baden-Baden was hailed as an undiscovered classic of 20th-century Russian literature. The Washington Post claimed it “a chronicle of fevered genius,” and The New York Review of Books described it as “gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving.” In her introduction,Susan Sontag said: “If you want from one boo ..." |
 | | White Walls Collected Stories (New York Review Books (Paperback)) by Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell, Antonina Bouis, Татьяна Толстая, Tatʹi͡a͡na Tolstai͡a͡ Paperback, 404 Pages, Published 2007 by Nyrb Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-197-4, ISBN: 1-59017-197-7 "A New York Review Books Original“Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.” –TimeTatyana Tolstaya’s short stories—with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair—established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia’s finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna O’Brien has called Tolstaya ..." |
 | | The Slynx (New York Review Books Classics) by Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell, Tatʹi͡ana Tolstai͡a, Tatʹi︠a︡na Tolstai︠a︡ Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Nyrb Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-196-7, ISBN: 1-59017-196-9 "New in Paperback "A postmodern literary masterpiece." -The Times Literary Supplement Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. He's got a job--transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe--and though he doesn't enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he's not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator ..." |
 | | Pushkin's Children(1st Edition) Writing on Russia and Russians by Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell, Alma Guillermoprieto, Татьяна Толстая, Tatʹi︠a︡na Tolstai︠a︡ Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-618-12500-5, ISBN: 0-618-12500-0 "These twenty pieces address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate and opinionated, often funny, and using ample material from daily life to underline their ideas and observations, Tatyana Tolstaya s essays range across a variety of subjects. They move in one unique voice from Soviet women, classical Russian cooking, and the bliss of snow to the effect of Pushkin and freedom on Russia w ..." |
 | | The Blizzard A Novel by Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-11437-4, ISBN: 0-374-11437-4 "Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russias most popular novelists and one of its most provocative as well In Sorokins scabrous dystopian satire Day of the Oprichnik American readers were introduced to his distinctive style which combines an edgy avant-garde sensibility with a fondness for the absurd and even grotesque-all in the service of bringing out stinging truths about life in modern-day Russia In The Blizzard we are immediately immersed i ..." |
 | | Ice (New York Review Books Classics) by Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-195-0, ISBN: 1-59017-195-0 "Ice is at the center of Vladimir Sorokin's epic Ice Trilogy, which is also published by NYRB Classics.Moscow has been hit by a wave of brutal murders. The victims are of both sexes, from different backgrounds, and of all ages, but invariably blond and blue-eyed. They are found with their breastbones smashed in, their hearts crushed. There is no sign of any motive. Drugs, sex, and violence are the currency of daily life in Moscow. Cr ..." |
 | | Telephone by Kornei Chukovsky, Vladimir Radunsky, Jamey Gambrell, Radunsky K. Chukovsky Paperback, 26 Pages, Published 1996 by North-South ISBN-13: 978-1-55858-481-5, ISBN: 1-55858-481-1 "Fasten your seatbelts! Get ready for a wild and wonderful, rollicking romp about a telephone ringing off the hook. As we plunge into the story, our narrator (who apparently runs a bizarre, 24-hour, all-purpose supply house) has just answered a call from an elephant: "What do you want?"/I asked him up front./"If I had my druthers,"/he said in a mutter,/"I'd order some more of your peanut butter." The flood of outrageous phone requests co ..." |
 | | Earthly Signs Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 by Marina I. Tsvetaeva, Jamey Gambrell, Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva, Marina T︠s︡vetaeva Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-06922-8, ISBN: 0-300-06922-7 "Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia's greatest 20th-century poets. Her suicide at the age of 48 was the tragic culmination of a life beset by loss and hardship. This volume presents in English a collection of essays published in the Russian emigre press after Tsvetaeva left Moscow in 1922. Based on diaries she kept from 1917 to 1920, the work describes the broad so ..." |
 | | Letters(1st Edition) Summer 1926 (New York Review Books Classics) by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marina I. Tsvetayeva, Susan Sontag, Margaret Wettlin, Walter W. Arndt, Jamey Gambrell, Marina T︠s︡vetaeva, Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelna Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Yelena Pasternak, Konstantin M. Azadovsky, Konstantin M. Azadovskii, E. V. Pasternak, Tsvetayeva Pasternak, Marina ︠T︡svetaeva, Evgeniĭ Borisovich Pasternak, Konstantin Azadovskiĭ Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2001 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-940322-71-4, ISBN: 0-940322-71-4 "Edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovsky The summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the three poets whose correspondence is collected in this moving volume. Marina Tsvetayeva was living in exile in France and struggling to get by. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Rainer Maria Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Though hardly kn ..." |
 | | Telephone by Kornei Chukovsky, Jamey Gambrell, Vladimir Radunsky, Radunsky K. Chukovsky Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1996 by Northsouth ISBN-13: 978-1-55858-480-8, ISBN: 1-55858-480-3 "Fasten your seatbelts! Get ready for a wild and wonderful, rollicking romp about a telephone ringing off the hook. As we plunge into the story, our narrator (who apparently runs a bizarre, 24-hour, all-purpose supply house) has just answered a call from an elephant: "What do you want?"/I asked him up front./"If I had my druthers,"/he said in a mutter,/"I'd order some more of your peanut butter." The flood of outrageous phone requests co ..." |
 | | The Story of a Boy Named Will by Daniil Kharms, Jamey Gambrell, Vladimir Radunsky, Damil Kharms Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1993 by Northsouth ISBN-13: 978-1-55858-214-9, ISBN: 1-55858-214-2 "Willie went for a sled ride and slid swiftly down the hillside. Down the hill he slid his sled, and hit a hunter as he sped. If you take a look at the pictures in the book, and read all the text, you'll see what happens next. Full color." |
 | | Baggage(1st Edition) by Samuil Marshak, Vladimir Lebedev, Marshak/Lebedev, Jamey Gambrell Hardcover, 12 Pages, Published 2013 by Tate Gallery Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84976-131-4, ISBN: 1-84976-131-0 "Baggage was first published in russia in 1926 as part of a plan for a new style of picture book, established by the Commissariat of Enlightenment to educate the children of the revolution. It is the product of the exceptional and fruitful collaboration between the two leaders of the movement, the poet and writer, Samuil Marshak, and the avant-garde artist, Vladimir Lebedev. This elegant new English edition of a classic work of Russian c ..." |
 | | Sleepwalker in a Fog(1st Edition) Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1992 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-58731-8, ISBN: 0-394-58731-6 "By "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today" (Joseph Brodsky), Sleepwalker in a Fog is a collection of seven stories and a novella set in contemporary Russia. Here is Denisov, who fears his greatest accomplishment in life will be the treatise he wrote and tore up. He is betrothed to Lora, an incessant talker who dreams of having a fluffy tail. We also read of Natasha, who searches Leningrad and her memory for h ..." |
 | | Day of the Oprichnik A Novel by Vladimir Sorokin, Jamey Gambrell Digital, 208 Pages, Published 2011 by Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-9491-0, ISBN: 1-4299-9491-6 "His mug is still furrowed, but he's had time to change his shirt, brush his teeth, and wash his hands. He's ready for my robing. I place my palm on the lock of my wardrobe. The lock beeps, its red light blinks, and the oak door slides to the side." |
 | | The Slynx A Novel by Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell, Rick Bass., Татьяна Толстая, Tatʹi︠a︡na Tolstai︠a︡ Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-618-12497-8, ISBN: 0-618-12497-7 "In what remains of Moscow some two hundred years after the "Blast," a community persists in primitive, ridiculous, and often brutal circumstances. Mice are the current source of food, clothes, and commerce, as well as a source of humor for Tatyana Tolstaya. Owning books in this society is prohibited by the tyrant, who plagiarizes the old masters, becoming his people's sole writer. One of the tyrant's scribes, Benedikt, is the main na ..." |
 | | The Inner Circle(1st Edition) An Inside View of Soviet Life Under Stalin by Andrei Konchalovsky, Alexander Lipkov, Jamey Gambrell, Aleksandr Lipkov Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1991 by William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-1-55704-106-7, ISBN: 1-55704-106-7 "Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: December 1991 Pages: 160 in Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers of The official movie tie-in to the Columbia Pictures feature film of The Inner Circle-the photographs and the history that inspired the distinguished Russian director the while making his latest film. now collected in this new revealing portrait of a period. More than 100 black-and-white photos. The official movie tie-in to the Columbi ..." |
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