Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago - Softcover

Anna Pasternak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008184917 ISBN 13: 9780008184919

Publisher: William Collins, 2016

Synopsis

Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak.

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About the Author:

Anna Pasternak is a writer and member of the famous Pasternak family: her great-grandfather was Leonid, the impressionist painter, her great-uncle was Boris the Nobel prize winning novelist, her grandmother was Josephine the philosopher and her father is revered Oxford biochemist Professor Charles Pasternak. Anna was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford.

Review:

#1 January book on Ophrah.com`Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker`Anna has produced a fascinating and often heart breaking portrait. Her book, which proceeds as suspensefully as a criminal investigation, is a testament to the profound bond between writer and muse.' O Magazine `A gripping and well-researched book seeks to establish Olga's place in history' Express`[A] gripping if sad chapter in history and she tells it well' Evening Standard`Meticulously researched' Sunday Times`Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times`A story with enough romance and suffering to make a moving novel or film in its own right' Observer`Anna Pasternak does not spare an ounce of drama nor detail from the story of her great uncle's love affair with Olga Ivinskaya, the inspiration for Doctor Zhivago's Lara. The result is a profoundly moving meditation on love, loyalty, and, ultimately, forgiveness' Amanda Foreman`A ... marvellously interesting book ... There are no happy endings in either [`Doctor Zhivago' or `Lara'], but both are fascinating tales' Spectator`Passionate and intriguing ... this is a brave and necessary rebuttal to much of the historical record' Country & Town House`A fascinating story ... I had already read `Doctor Zhivago', but I wish I could have read this book then, too, for I have now been greatly enlightened, as well as much entertained' Country Life`An enchanting love story, wonderfully told' Sir Ronald Harwood`Lara is a quest to give recognition to a woman immortalized in "Doctor Zhivago," yet consumed by the meat grinder of the Soviet state, then erased by the Pasternak family. Lara - the story of one of Stalin's innumerable victims, is a particularly poignant book' Washington Post`Lara tells a heartbreaking love story, a tragedy in some ways as compelling as the classic its real-life protagonists inspired.' BookPage

About this edition

• Publisher: William Collins
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0008184917
• ISBN 13: 9780008184919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336