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Ebook About INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKA thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.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, and under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops, and invisibly ferry classified documents.The Secrets We Kept combines a legendary literary love story--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--with a narrative about two women empowered to lead lives of extraordinary intrigue and risk. From Pasternak's country estate outside Moscow to the brutalities of the Gulag, from Washington, D.C. to Paris and Milan, The Secrets We Kept captures a watershed moment in the history of literature--told with soaring emotional intensity and captivating historical detail. And at the center of this unforgettable debut is the powerful belief that a piece of art can change the world.Book The Secrets We Kept: A novel Review :
At the height of the Cold War, the CIA publishes Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago in Russian and smuggles the copies behind the Iron Curtain to embarrass the Soviet leadership. It's a great story filled with colorful characters, intrigue, suspense and literary values.But it's been told before, in Peter Finn and Petra Couvée's "The Zhivago Affair," among other places, and better. There are memoirs and accounts from many of the participants. This fictionalization is a less compelling story than the truth.The author's main interest does not seem to be the plot. Rather she attempts to recreate an historical era with emphasis on sexism. The important characters are all women, mostly fictional, more concerned with love, sex (straight and lesbian), clothes and personal relations than either literature or politics.My issue here is the author does not understand the era. She transplants 21st ideas of sexism into the 1950s. Women of that era did not graduate college only to be shocked at being offered jobs as typists, while less-intelligent college graduate men were put on executive paths. The women and everyone else knew long before college that women's choices were marriage-and-family, low-paid work or fighting hard against steep odds for professional careers. Moreover the women involved did not differ from their male bosses only by sex, the author is comparing middle-class and poor women from average colleges to wealthy Ivy-League males with strong connections. The class differences mattered as well as sex.Contemporary works like Patricia Highsmith's "The Price of Salt," which has some similarities to this novel, paint a far different and more accurate picture of the lives of women and lesbians in the 1950s (that book also ranks much higher on literary grounds). You can also learn from the Zhivago affair books written by participants.Finally the book fails as a thriller. The only real tension concerns Soviet government abuse of Pasternak's mistress, and it is not sustained. The gulag scenes are wrenching, but have been done much better elsewhere. The plotting is not taut, and the action scenes are clumsy.The best way to view this book is as a reasonably well-written attempt to use historical events to illustrate 21st century ideas about women, sex and power. If it had been complete fiction, or if it recounted obscure events, I might have given it three stars for a decent story and good writing. But since it relies mainly on the interest of the historical story, and it doesn't do that story justice, and it fails to evoke the reality of the era, I decided on two stars. The Prologue was good, but I'm reminded of Elmore Leonard's sage advice, "Don't have a prologue." And another bit of advice, "Begin in medias res." Successful writers give out this advice for a reason. Unfortunately for this book once the prologue is done, it quickly becomes tedious from Chapter 1 to the end, if you can make it that far. I had to skim a bit to get there. Save your money. If you've never read it, get Girl on the Train instead. That was well paced with a flawed heroine with a satisfying ending. Read Online The Secrets We Kept: A novel Download The Secrets We Kept: A novel The Secrets We Kept: A novel PDF The Secrets We Kept: A novel Mobi Free Reading The Secrets We Kept: A novel Download Free Pdf The Secrets We Kept: A novel PDF Online The Secrets We Kept: A novel Mobi Online The Secrets We Kept: A novel Reading Online The Secrets We Kept: A novel Read Online Lara Prescott Download Lara Prescott Lara Prescott PDF Lara Prescott Mobi Free Reading Lara Prescott Download Free Pdf Lara Prescott PDF Online Lara Prescott Mobi Online Lara Prescott Reading Online Lara PrescottRead The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers By Johnny Saldana
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