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Set in the seamy world of the Russian sex slave trade, The Age of Terror is the harrowing story of Joe, a disillusioned young American expatriate and lapsed Catholic who searches for life's meaning in the Soviet Union on the eve of its disintegration.
Plante plays brilliantly with our assumptions of both the United States and Russia, and ultimately proclaims a universal theme of sacredness and redemption.
Plante plays brilliantly with our assumptions of both the United States and Russia, and ultimately proclaims a universal theme of sacredness and redemption.
Set in the seamy world of the Russian sex slave trade, The Age of Terror is the harrowing story of Joe, a disillusioned young American expatriate and lapsed Catholic who searches for life's meaning in the Soviet Union on the eve of its disintegration.
Plante plays brilliantly with our assumption...
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David Plante is a professor of writing at Columbia University, a senior member of King's College, Cambridge, and has taught at the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. He has written more than a dozen novels, including The Family, The Woods, and Annunciation. His articles and short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The London Review of Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and an American Academy prize winner.
David Plante is a professor of writing at Columbia University, a senior member of King's College, Cambridge, and has taught at the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. He has written more than a dozen novels, including The Family, The Woods, and Annunciation. His articles and short stories ha...
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