Contemporary American Novella of the 1960s. Interesting collection of Russian translations.

Bellow, Saul; Roth, Philip; Salinger, J.D.; Updike, John; Faulkner, William, etc.[Contemporary American Novella of the 1960s]. Sovremennaia Amerikanskaia Novella 60-e Dody.

Compiled by Yu. Zhukova, M. Landor.
Cover design by V. Eremina. 

Moskva, Progress, 1971.
8vo, 432 pp.

In original grey cloth.
In good condition, cloth lightly darkened.

The book contains the first Russian publications of Saul Bellow (‘Looking for Mr. Green’), Philip Roth (‘You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings’, published the same year as his first Russian book), and Joyce Carol Oates (‘Stigmata’). It also includes the first book publication of 'Cutting Edge' by James Purdy.
Additionally, it features 'The Doctor's Wife' from the collected stories 'Pigeon Feathers' by John Updike, 'The Sucker' by Carson McCullers, 'Franny' by J.D. Salinger, the essay 'Grand' (1964) by Tennessee Williams, 'Mr. Acarius' by William Faulkner, 'The Golden Age' by John Cheever, excerpts from 'Flood' by Robert Penn Warren, 'The Madeline Wherry Case' by John O'Hara, 'The Dead Gook' by Norman Mailer, 'Take Pity' by Bernard Malamud, 'Sunday Allergy' by James Jones, and 'Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone' by James Baldwin.

Libman, # 937.

OCLC locates three copies of this edition: in the Ohio State University Library, the University of North Carolina Library and the Saxon State and University Library (Dresden).