Check out an abridged version of Alexander Stille’s Afterword to Pitigrilli’s Cocaine on the New York Review of Books blog. And find out who Pitigrilli called “a man above all adjectives.”
“Sergei Lebedev is a marvelous writer with two rare gifts: a nobility of style and the most precise inner vision, which allows him to see and plumb the entire depth of the anthropological catastrophe that occurred in twentieth-century Russia. Lebedev has perceived what was invisible to most Soviet and post-Soviet writers.”
Vladimir Sorokin, author of The Blizzard, Day of the Oprichnik and Ice Trilogy
Check out an abridged version of Alexander Stille’s Afterword to Pitigrilli’s Cocaine on the New York Review of Books blog. And find out who Pitigrilli called “a man above all adjectives.”