Biography & Autobiography Political
Don't Die Before You're Dead
- Publisher
- Key Porter Books
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2002
- Category
- Political, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550136586
- Publish Date
- Jun 2002
- List Price
- $28.95
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Don't Die before You're Dead mingles fiction with autobiography, taking as its backdrop, the dramatic events surrounding the abortive coup of 1991 -an act which Yevtushenko views as the pathetic last struggle of communism's cooling corpse. He chroncles the lives of twelve unforgettable characters - some real and some fictional. In the telling of their stories Yevtushenko creates a rich tapestry of intertwined lives; an astonishing and vivid portrait of the Russian soul in a time of change and upheaval. (1995)