The Last Summer
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the sweltering heat of pre-revolutionary Russia, Boris Pasternak's The Last Summer presents a haunting, lyrical portrait of a young man standing on the precipice of change — both personal and historical. The novella chronicles Serezha, a tutor spending what will prove to be an unforgettable summer in Moscow, caught between a consuming passion for a married woman and the turbulent undercurrents of a society on the brink of transformation. Written with the same luminous, image-rich prose that made Doctor Zhivago a global phenomenon, the narrative captures a single season of youth with an intensity that feels both fleeting and eternal. Pasternak, one of the towering figures of twentieth-century Russian literature and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brings to this shorter work the same poetic sensibility and philosophical depth that defines his broader canon. The Last Summer is at once an intimate study of desire and memory and a quiet elegy for a world about to be consumed by revolution — a world where every glance, every conversation, and every silence carries the weight of an ending. Readers who think they know what a final summer feels like will find Pasternak's vision utterly, and beautifully, unsettling.
Author: Boris Pasternak
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the sweltering heat of pre-revolutionary Russia, Boris Pasternak's The Last Summer presents a haunting, lyrical portrait of a young man standing on the precipice of change — both personal and historical. The novella chronicles Serezha, a tutor spending what will prove to be an unforgettable summer in Moscow, caught between a consuming passion for a married woman and the turbulent undercurrents of a society on the brink of transformation. Written with the same luminous, image-rich prose that made Doctor Zhivago a global phenomenon, the narrative captures a single season of youth with an intensity that feels both fleeting and eternal. Pasternak, one of the towering figures of twentieth-century Russian literature and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brings to this shorter work the same poetic sensibility and philosophical depth that defines his broader canon. The Last Summer is at once an intimate study of desire and memory and a quiet elegy for a world about to be consumed by revolution — a world where every glance, every conversation, and every silence carries the weight of an ending. Readers who think they know what a final summer feels like will find Pasternak's vision utterly, and beautifully, unsettling.