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    Paperback in the USSR

    Sep 01, 2019 3 minutes
    By Steven G. Kellman

    THE SECRETS WE KEPT

    By Lara Prescott

    KNOPF

    $36.95; 369 PAGES

    When I taught American literature at a Soviet university in 1980, I managed to bring along some books that were banned by the Kremlin: , , . I passed the limited copies on to my students, who would stay up all night reading in order to hand them off to a classmate in the morning. Reading material was so precious that a month-old copy of was hoarded as a treasure. By contrast, many

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