Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood【電子書籍】[ Alexander Voloshin ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A bittersweet tale of war, survival, and the movies＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞With great wit and warmth, Alexander Voloshin’s ＜em＞Sidetracked＜/em＞ provides unique insight into one of the major human dramas of the twentieth century: the escape of some two million refugees from the collapsing Russian Empire in the wake of the revolutions of 1917. A former officer in the White Army, Voloshin spent the late 1920s and 1930s struggling to make a living in Hollywood as an extra. His lively yet poignant poem follows his countrymen as they resist the Bolsheviks in Ukraine, suffer crushing defeat, and take flightーfirst to Europe, then to New York, and, eventually, to Los Angeles. The chapters devoted to the lives of ?migr?s in Hollywood, which Voloshin knew so well, are a priceless document of the town’s Golden Age, as viewed from the bottom up.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“＜em＞Sidetracked＜/em＞ is a masterpiece. Voloshin is a superbly funny and touching poet. Dralyuk reconstructs his life in photographs and in an e．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る