ALL THE CLEAN ONES ARE MARRIED by Cidylo, Lori ISBN 0897335015
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Cidylo, a freelance journalist now safely back in New York, set off for the former Soviet Union in 1991, just in time to see it crumble. In these essays she offers insights on her life and experiences there, where she lived like an ordinary Muscovite; (she speaks fluent Russian). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
In 1991, Lori Cidylo shocked her Ukrainian Polish-born parents when she told them she was leaving her reporter's job to live and work in the rapidly dissolving Soviet Union. For six years she lived on a shoe-string budget in Moscow, in tiny, run-down apartments, struggling with broken toilets and indifferent landlords and coping with the daily calamities of life in Russia. Fluent in Russian, she rode on public transportation, did her own shopping and cooking, and shared the typical Muscovite's life-unlike most Westerners who were still sequestered in the heavily guarded compounds reserved for diplomats and journalists. As the country experienced its most dramatic transformation since the Bolshevik Revolution, she realised she had stepped into a fantastical and absurd adventure. Cidylo's wry, insightful account of what it is like for an American woman living in Russia is a dramatic tale full of insouciant laughter, in which the immediate sense of vivid experience shines on every page. As Russia even now continues to struggle with the Cold War's aftermath, Cidylo gives a delightful, surprising, warmly human view of post-Soviet life.
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[edit] Title
ALL THE CLEAN ONES ARE MARRIED
[edit] Author
Cidylo, Lori
[edit] ISBN
0897335015
[edit] Published
01/11/2001
[edit] Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers, U.S.
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
20.99 (GBP)
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