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The secrets we kept
- Title
- The secrets we kept / Lara Prescott.
- Author
- Prescott, Lara
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-11468 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 349 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world -- using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, but under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops, and invisibly ferry classified documents. Their story is intertwined with that of the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, who was sent to the Gulag and inspired Zhivago's heroine, Lara.
- Subject
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. > Fiction
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 > Fiction
- Ivinskai︠a︡, Olʹga, 1912-1995 > Fiction
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency > Officials and employees > Fiction
- Cold War > Fiction
- Women spies > Fiction
- Secretaries > Fiction
- Smuggling > Fiction
- Prohibited books > Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Political
- FICTION / Historical / General
- Genre/Form
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Biographical fiction.
- Novels.
- Spy fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Contents
- Prologue : The typists -- East: 1949-1950 : The muse -- West: Fall 1956 : The applicant -- The typists -- The swallow -- East: 1950-1955 : The rehabilitated woman -- The cloud dweller -- The emissary -- West: February-Fall 1957 : The carrier -- The typists -- East: 1955-1956 : The agent -- The emissary -- West: Fall 1957-August 1958 : The carrier -- The swallow -- The company man -- The swallow -- The carrier -- The typists -- The carrier -- East: May 1958 : The mother -- West: August-September 1958 : The typists -- The nun -- East: September-October 1958 : The prizewinner -- West: October-December 1958 : The informant -- East: October-December 1958 : The emissary -- West: December 1958 : The defector -- East: January 1959 : The postmistress -- West: Summer 1959 : The student -- East : 1960-1961 : The almost widow -- Epilogue : The typists.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11468
- ISBN
- 9780525656159
- 0525656154
- LCCN
- 2018052229
- OCLC
- 1061867295
- Author
- Prescott, Lara, author.
- Title
- The secrets we kept / Lara Prescott.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Prescott, Lara. Secrets we kept First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 9780525656166 (DLC) 2018053630 (OCoLC)1065756349
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11468