The Ransom of Russian Art (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John McPhee
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Art; current affairs
- Time of Work: 1955-1994
- Setting: Soviet Union, Maryland, New York City, Washington, D.C., and San Antonio
- Principal Characters: Norton Townsend Dodge, Nancy Dodge, Evgeny Rukhin, Galina Popova, Sarah Burke, John McPhee
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Social action, Communism or communists, Prisoners, Art or artists, Conformity, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Intelligence service, Collecting or collectors, Museums
- Locales: New York, NY, Soviet Union, Washington, D.C., Maryland, San Antonio, TX
One of America’s best nonfiction writers, John McPhee has explored a variety of subjects in his previous twenty-two books: a basketball star in A Sense of Where You Are (1965), a prep school headmaster in The Headmaster (1966), oranges in Oranges (1967), the natural and social history of a region of New Jersey in The Pine Barrens (1968), a conservationist in Encounters with the Archdruid (1971), Alaska in Coming into the Country (1977), geologists in Basin and Range (1981) and three other books, Switzerland in La Place de la Concorde...
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