A Country Doctor's Notebook - Softcover

Bulgakov, Mikhail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860461654 ISBN 13: 9781860461651

Publisher: Harvill Press, 1995

Synopsis

With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of Revolution - is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance.

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Review:

"These straighforward yet extraordinary sketches gain their strength from also being the account of a young man's growth. One begins to see that he became a novelist not because he had material but because he was storing up passion and temperament."-- V.S. Pritchett, New Statesman"Stories as keen and bright as a scalpel... Courage shines from every angle of this profoundly human collection by the greatest of modern Russian writers."--Sunday Times

Book Description:

Brilliant stories which show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material which fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1860461654
• ISBN 13: 9781860461651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160