A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life Donna Janell Bowman Perfect for your coffee table

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life Donna Janell Bowman Perfect for your coffee tableFor the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction