Lady of the Snakes
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: January 14, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780151013692
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Family Life; Historical - General; Literary; American Historical Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General
Description: Jane Levitsky is a bright light in the field of nineteenth-century Russian literature, making her name as an expert on the novels of Grigory Karkov and the diaries of his wife, the long-suffering Masha Karkova. Jane is also wife to sweet, reasonable Billy and mother to lovable (if demanding) Maisie, roles she's finding surprisingly challenging to juggle along with her ambitions. But when Jane uncovers evidence that Masha may have been more than muse and help meet to her famous husband, she seizes her ticket to academic superstardom. Little does she know that she has set in motion a chain of events that will come perilously close to unraveling both her marriage and her career.