Author : Alexandra Costa
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Book Synopsis Stepping Down from the Star by : Alexandra Costa
Download or read book Stepping Down from the Star written by Alexandra Costa and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandra Costa, wife of the first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Washington, relates the account of her escape to freedom, with all its excitement--secret codes and signals, aliases, vicious threats, and encounters with security officers. Hers is the first book to describe what it is to step into an alien land, with a new name, no past, and no friends or business experience. Filled with humor, suspense, emotion, and details about two lands and two ways of life, the book offers a rare insight into the everyday world of an intelligent, educated Russian woman--what she confronted in her own society and what she confronted in American society when she dared to leave her own. ISBN 0-399-13195-7: $16.95.