A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing Reading and Life

A Swim in a Pond in the RainFrom the New York Times bestselling Booker Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth o

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing Reading and LifeF December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us

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Borges and MeHat will profoundly alter his life and work A poignant and comic literary coming of age memoir n n

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My Autobiography of Carson McCullersIes between criticism biography and autobiography in search of two identities n nWhile working as