Sarah Pratt

Sarah Pratt traces interwoven questions in the work of Nikolai Zabolotsky, a figure ranking just behind Pasternak, Mandelstram and Akhmatova in modern Russian poetry and the first major poet to come to light in the Soviet period. The book identifies a ""Soviet"" impulse, marked by a veneer of Marxist ideology and political acceptability, and a ""Russian"" impulse that reflects prerevolutionary mores and the cultural bedrock of Russian Orthodoxy.

Sarah Pratt traces interwoven questions in the work of Nikolai Zabolotsky, a figure ranking just behind Pasternak, Mandelstram and Akhmatova in modern Russian poetry and the first major poet to come to light in the Soviet period. The book identifies a ""Soviet"" impulse, marked by a veneer of Marxist ideology and political acceptability, and a ""Russian"" impulse that reflects prerevolutionary mores and the cultural bedrock of Russian Orthodoxy.

Amidst the chaos left in back alleyways and side streets, the Marker wages war against corruption in the crime-ridden metropolitan city of Ashden. Cloaked in a hood and a trench coat, he administers justice one villain at a time. In his wake, investigative journalist Chris Verlorne observes and reports on the deeds of this hooded vigilante. When he stumbles upon the trail of a hidden arsonist serial killer, Chris vows to hunt him down and bring him to justice. But with no one else believing a killer is on the loose, Chris' world begins to spiral out of control. What he finds out might end up hitting too close to home. Can he stop the killer before he strikes again?