shopping cart
Call us: 800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Powell's Q&A, Q&A | June 24, 2009

Colum McCann: IMG Powell's Q&A: Colum McCann

0 comments By Colum McCann

"'Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.'" Continue »
  1. $17.50 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    Let the Great World Spin

    Colum McCann
Ships free on qualified orders.
$18.95
TRADE PAPER, NEW
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
1 Beaverton Literature- A to Z
1 Burnside Literature- A to Z
1 Burnside Featured Titles- Nobel Prize Winners
14 Local Warehouse Russia- General Russian History
6 Remote Warehouse Politics- Human Rights
Click here to hide store locations


Used Book Alert Receive an email when this ISBN is available used.

Other titles in the P.S. series:

  1. 1421: The Year China Discovered America
  2. 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
  3. 26a
  4. 86'd: A Bruno Dante Novel
  5. A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and Life
  6. A Computer Called Leo
  7. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
  8. A Death in Belmont
  9. A Father's Law
  10. A Golden Age
  11. A Life Full of Holes
  12. A Perfectly Good Family
  13. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
  14. A Secret Alchemy
  15. A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
  16. A Ship Made of Paper
  17. A Storm in the Blood
  18. A Ticket to Ride
  19. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
  20. Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette
  21. Accidentally on Purpose: The True Tale of a Happy Single Mother
  22. Adverbs
  23. Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer
  24. Alexander and Alestria
  25. America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
  26. American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps
  27. Anansi Boys: A Novel
  28. Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
  29. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
  30. April 1865: The Month That Saved America
  31. April Fool's Day
  32. Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
  33. Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works
  34. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
  35. Ask the Dust
  36. Ask the Dust
  37. Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad
  38. Assorted Fire Events: Stories
  39. Astonishing Splashes of Colour
  40. Augustine: A New Biography
  41. Back to Wando Passo
  42. Bad Monkeys
  43. Beasts of No Nation
  44. Beet
  45. Being Written
  46. Bel Canto
  47. Bell Jar
  48. Betsy and the Great World/Betsy's Wedding
  49. Betsy Was a Junior/Betsy and Joe
  50. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
  51. Black Boy
  52. Black Boy
  53. Black Girl/White Girl
  54. Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power/The Color Curtain/And White, Man, Listen!
  55. Blind Faith
  56. Blonde
  57. Blue Angel
  58. Bodies in Motion: Stories
  59. Bonjour Tristesse
  60. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
  61. Boy Still Missing
  62. Brave New World
  63. Brave New World Revisited
  64. Brida
  65. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories
  66. Bright Shiny Morning
  67. Broken
  68. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
  69. Callisto
  70. Candy Everybody Wants
  71. Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
  72. Checker and the Derailleurs
  73. Chicago
  74. Choosing My Religion: A Memoir of a Family Beyond Belief
  75. Citizen Vince
  76. City of the Beasts
  77. Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back
  78. Confessions of a Falling Woman: And Other Stories
  79. Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper
  80. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
  81. Continental Drift
  82. Coraline
  83. Coronado: Stories
  84. Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
  85. Crooked Little Vein
  86. Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography
  87. Daughter of Fortune
  88. Daughter of Fortune
  89. Daughter of Fortune
  90. Daughters of the North
  91. De Niro's Game
  92. Death Be Not Proud
  93. Democracy in America Abridged Edition
  94. Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States
  95. Dog Years: A Memoir
  96. Down and Out on Murder Mile
  97. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
  98. East Wind, Rain
  99. Eight Men
  100. Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
  101. Empress
  102. Enemy Women
  103. Every Visible Thing
  104. Eyeless in Gaza
  105. Families of the Vine: Seasons Among the Winemakers of Southwest France
  106. Family Planning
  107. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
  108. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
  109. Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
  110. First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood
  111. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
  112. Five Quarters of the Orange
  113. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
  114. Forest of the Pygmies
  115. Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
  116. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
  117. Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
  118. Further Adventures
  119. Futureproof
  120. Game Control
  121. Gates of Eden
  122. Genealogy:
  123. Gentlemen and Players: A Novel
  124. Girl Trouble: Stories
  125. Girlfriend in a Coma
  126. Go with Me
  127. Gods and Monsters: A Novel
  128. Good Family
  129. Good-Bye and Amen
  130. Gulag Archipelago Volume 2
  131. Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World
  132. Haweswater
  133. Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain
  134. Heaven to Betsy/Betsy in Spite of Herself
  135. Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
  136. History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
  137. Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art
  138. House Rules: A Memoir
  139. House Thinking: A Room-By-Room Look at How We Live
  140. How to Paint a Dead Man
  141. I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
  142. I Know This Much Is True
  143. I Love You, Beth Cooper
  144. I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir
  145. I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison
  146. If Today Be Sweet
  147. Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas
  148. In His Sights: One Woman's Stalking Nightmare
  149. Ines of My Soul
  150. Inside Out Girl
  151. Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
  152. Island
  153. It's All Right Now
  154. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
  155. Jonah's Gourd Vine
  156. Joy in the Morning
  157. Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed
  158. Just Say NU: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do)
  159. Karma and Other Stories
  160. Keeping Faith
  161. Kill Your Friends
  162. Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
  163. Kockroach
  164. Land of the Blind
  165. Lapham Rising
  166. Last One In
  167. Leave the Building Quickly: True Stories
  168. Leaving Cecil Street
  169. Leeway Cottage
  170. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
  171. Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
  172. Light of Day
  173. Little Star of Bela Lua: Stories from Brazil
  174. Little, Big
  175. London Born
  176. Lost City Radio
  177. Lost Girls and Love Hotels
  178. Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
  179. Love Falls
  180. Love Medicine
  181. Love Medicine
  182. Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
  183. Lucky Girls: Stories
  184. Lullabies for Little Criminals
  185. Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
  186. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
  187. Michael Tolliver Lives
  188. Microserfs
  189. Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
  190. Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope
  191. Montenegro
  192. Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong
  193. More of This World or Maybe Another
  194. Moses, Man of the Mountain
  195. Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
  196. Mules and Men
  197. My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family
  198. My Goat Ate Its Own Legs: Tales for Adults
  199. My Lives: A Memoir
  200. My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
  201. My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
  202. Names on a Map
  203. Native Son
  204. Natural Flights of the Human Mind
  205. Northline (Harper Perennial P.S.)
  206. Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn
  207. Now You See Him
  208. On Boxing (06 Edition)
  209. On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
  210. One Big Damn Puzzler
  211. One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War
  212. Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
  213. Out Backward
  214. Outer Banks: Three Early Novels
  215. Over Tumbled Graves
  216. Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
  217. Pagan Spain
  218. Papillon
  219. Paula: A Memoir
  220. Pelican Blood
  221. Polly
  222. Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire
  223. Pop Salvation
  224. Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
  225. Pound for Pound
  226. Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
  227. Profiles in Courage
  228. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
  229. Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories
  230. Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System
  231. Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
  232. Right of Thirst
  233. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
  234. Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
  235. Run
  236. Sacred Games: A Novel
  237. Secrets of the Sea
  238. Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
  239. Seraph on the Suwanee
  240. Serena
  241. Serpent Box
  242. Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
  243. Shadow of the Silk Road
  244. Shakespeare's Wife
  245. Sharp Teeth
  246. She Was
  247. Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
  248. Sights Unseen
  249. Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
  250. Soul Catcher
  251. Spike: An Intimate Memoir
  252. Stardust
  253. Stormy Weather
  254. Strange Skies
  255. Summer People
  256. Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! a Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR
  257. Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
  258. Suspension
  259. Taft
  260. Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
  261. Tales of the City
  262. Taming the Beast
  263. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
  264. Ten Storey Love Song
  265. Tete-A-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
  266. Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman's Quest for an Orgasm
  267. The Art of Loving
  268. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  269. The Autumn of the Patriarch
  270. The Ballad of West Tenth Street: A Novel
  271. The Bean Trees
  272. The Beet Queen
  273. The Bell Jar
  274. The Best People in the World
  275. The Bingo Palace
  276. The Birth House
  277. The Black Death
  278. The Black Tower
  279. The Book Borrower
  280. The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury
  281. The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind -- and Almost Found Myself -- on the Pacific Crest Trail
  282. The Camel Bookmobile
  283. The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank
  284. The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters
  285. The Collected Poems
  286. The Complete Stories
  287. The Condition
  288. The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District
  289. The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
  290. The Death of Vishnu
  291. The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation
  292. The Devils of Loudun
  293. The Dissident
  294. The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
  295. The Drowned Life
  296. The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, JR., and the Reign of American Taste
  297. The Enthusiast
  298. The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
  299. The Falls
  300. The Family on Paradise Pier
  301. The Female Eunuch
  302. The Female of the Species
  303. The Fifth Mountain
  304. The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
  305. The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America
  306. The Genius and the Goddess
  307. The Giant's House: A Romance
  308. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
  309. The Girl from Charnelle
  310. The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s
  311. The Girl with No Shadow
  312. The Good Fight: Why Liberals---And Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again
  313. The Good Rat: A True Story
  314. The Gospel of Food: Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy What We Eat
  315. The Grass Is Singing
  316. The Gravedigger's Daughter
  317. The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
  318. The Hour I First Believed
  319. The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
  320. The House on Fortune Street
  321. The Jewel Trader of Pegu
  322. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
  323. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
  324. The Last Season
  325. The Last Witchfinder: A Novel
  326. The Learners: The Book After "The Cheese Monkeys"
  327. The Lightning Keeper
  328. The Lost Heart of Asia
  329. The Madonnas of Leningrad
  330. The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
  331. The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine
  332. The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
  333. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
  334. The Matchmaker of Perigord
  335. The Mathematics of Love
  336. The Monkey Wrench Gang
  337. The Moonflower Vine
  338. The Motel Life: A Novel
  339. The Night Listener
  340. The Odyssey of Homer
  341. The Outcast
  342. The Outlander
  343. The Outsider
  344. The Oysters of Locmariaquer
  345. The Pact: A Love Story
  346. The Pact: A Love Story
  347. The Painted Drum
  348. The Pale Blue Eye
  349. The Patron Saint of Liars
  350. The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
  351. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
  352. The Philosopher's Apprentice
  353. The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse
  354. The Plague of Doves
  355. The Poisonwood Bible
  356. The Post-Birthday World
  357. The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions
  358. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  359. The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
  360. The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
  361. The Reserve
  362. The Scenic Route
  363. The Secret Sisters
  364. The Septembers of Shiraz
  365. The Seven Days of Peter Crumb
  366. The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: A Memoir
  367. The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
  368. The Sound of Butterflies
  369. The Space between Us
  370. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
  371. The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice
  372. The Stylist
  373. The Sum of Our Days
  374. The Summer of Naked Swim Parties
  375. The Tattooed Girl
  376. The Testing of Luther Albright
  377. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
  378. The Torn Skirt
  379. The Winter of the World
  380. The Witch of Portobello
  381. The Wrecking Ball
  382. The Yacoubian Building
  383. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
  384. The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
  385. The Zero
  386. Their Eyes Were Watching God
  387. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
  388. Traveling Light
  389. Truck: A Love Story
  390. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
  391. Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money
  392. Two Truths and a Lie
  393. Ugly Man: Stories
  394. Uncle Tom's Children
  395. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
  396. Under the Volcano
  397. Unless
  398. Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption
  399. Vinegar Hill
  400. Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip -- Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
  401. Wasted
  402. Water from the Well: Women of the Bible: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah
  403. We Disappear
  404. We Need to Talk about Kevin
  405. Where God Was Born: A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories
  406. White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
  407. Who by Fire
  408. Why I'm Like This: True Stories
  409. Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
  410. Willing
  411. Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
  412. Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert
  413. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
  414. Zombie
  415. Zorro: A Novel

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)

by Aleksa Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author
back to top

About the Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, Russia, in 1918. A twice-decorated captain in the Soviet Army, he was stripped of his rank, arrested, and convicted in 1945 for privately criticizing Stalin. Exiled from the USSR in 1974, Solzhenitsyn eventually settled in the United States before returning to his homeland twenty years later. Among his other acclaimed works are the novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The First Circle. His literary awards include the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Medal of Honor for Literature.
back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780061253805
Subtitle:
An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Author:
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksa
Translator:
Whitney, Thomas P.
Translator:
Willets, Harry
Author:
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Author:
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Russian & Former Soviet Union
Subject:
Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Subject:
Penology
Edition Description:
Paperback
Abridged:
Y
Series:
P.S.
Publication Date:
August 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
470
Dimensions:
8.00x5.58x.93 in. .90 lbs.
back to top

Other books you might like

  1. $9.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)

    George Orwell
  2. $6.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.)

    Willy Vlautin
  3. $32.50 New Hardcover add to wish list

    I'm Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0

    Alton Brown
  4. $4.00 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    Wheel of Time #03: The Dragon Reborn

    Robert Jordan
  5. $3.95 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    Wheel of Time #06: Lord of Chaos

    Robert Jordan
  6. $12.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Pedagogy of the Oppressed 30TH Anniv Edition

    Paulo Freire
back to top

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.