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Epic of a Class
Kenton, Edna | July 18, 1934 issue

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This article critically appraises the book "Escape From the Soviets," by Tatiana Tchernavin. If you are looking for an example in support of the dictum that really "fine writing" is natural writing, you can do no better among current books than to offer Tehernavin's "Escape From the Soviets." A more unpretentious, sunpie story has seldom come any reader's way. If a book is a bridge over the gulf that separates reader from author, this book is a bridge so delicate as to eliminate both bridge and gulf. Here the reader sits eye to eye with the speaker-the veritable teller of the tale.

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TCHERNAVIN, Tatiana; ESCAPE From the Soviets (Book); BOOKS & reading; CRITICISM; LITERATURE; HORROR
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