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Pushkin Hills
Pushkin Hills | Sergei Dovlatov
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An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha, but during Alikhanov’s stay in the rural estate of Mikhaylovskoye, his life continues to unravel. Populated with unforgettable characters—including Alikhanov’s fellow guides Mitrofanov and Pototsky, and the KGB officer Belyaev—Pushkin Hills ranks among Dovlatov’s renowned works The Suitcase and The Zone as his most personal and poignant portrayal of the Russian attitude towards life and art.
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I just moved to Moscow and this is the first book I've read start to finish since arriving. It should have been depressing, since it's the story of an alcoholic dissident writer struggling to eke out a living at a tourist site devoted to the writer Pushkin during the early 80s in the Soviet Union. Instead, it made me laugh more than once, mainly because of the narrator's ironic and observant sense of humor about his situation and life in general.

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Pushkin Hills | Sergei Dovlatov
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I knew Bukowski wouldn't let me down! And for a different but equally important drink, Pushkin Hills - I loved this - drily funny but profound at the same time, like a Russian Vonnegut.
Pic: in the cellar (where else 😉)
#drinksoncovers #AnditsAugust

BarbaraBB No, Bukowski wouldn't let you down 😂😂 7y
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