Moscow Farewell

Still Praised By Russians As The Book That Captures Russians' Feelings As Well As The Country'S Spirit During The Late Soviet Period Moscow Farewell Was Published As A Novel Because It Compressed Time And Disguised Russian Characters For Their Protection. However Everything It Describes And Recounts About An American Exchange Student'S Experiences At Moscow State University During The Late Soviet Period Actually Happened.. This Extremely Well-Written Funny And Insightful Novel As A Russian Reader Recently Called It Shares Its Best Qualities With Those In Salinger'S Catcher In The Rye Roth'S Portnoy'S Complaint And Kerouac'S On The Road. It Changed My Life Another Reader Wrote Also Recently. “I First Read It When I Was 14 Years Old. I Read It Again This Summer After I’D Returned From Russia A Trip That Moscow Farewell Helped Inspire. The Book Is So Brilliant Accurate And Timeless That Thirty-Plus Years Later The Paralells Between Feifer’S Life In Moscow And Mine In St. Petersburg Are Eerie.”. It Is Difficult To Recall When So Artful And Compelling A Work On Contemporary Russia Last Appeared.- Saturday Review. Feifer’ Penetrating Observations Seem To Catch The Soul Of The Soviet Citizen Recording For The West Something Of The Taste Of The Country And Its People...His Narrative Style Digs Like A Sharp Spade.- London Tribune. Feifer Is Possibly Unique In That He Has Written A Book With Several Layers Of Brilliance. He Is That Rare Being A Passionate And Compassionately Critical Observer Whose Eye And Pen Run True Together. - London Daily Mail. Moscow Farewell Ought To Be—And I Don’T Doubt Will Be—Widely Read. - New York Times Book Review. Deeply Erotic Profoundly Moving. - Los Angeles Times . . .