Odessa : genius and death in a city of dreams
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
947.72/KING,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393070842 (hbk.), 0393070840 (hbk.), 0393070840 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
pt. 1. City of dreams -- ch. 1. The sinister shore -- ch. 2. Potemkin and the mercenaries -- ch. 3. Beacon -- ch. 4. The governor and the poet -- ch. 5. "There is nothing national about Odessa" -- pt. 2. The habitations of cruelty -- ch. 6. Schemes and shadows -- ch. 7. Blood and vengeance -- ch. 8. New world -- ch. 9. The fields of Transnistria --ch. 10. "I would like to bring to your attention the following" -- pt. 3. Nostalgia and remembrance -- ch. 11. Hero city -- ch. 12. Twilight -- Chronology