A Ticket to the Stars

When this novel by a twenty-eight-year-old Moscow doctor appeared in Russia, it caused a storm of literary excitement.
Some critics attacked it for its "hateful" slang, its effervescent irreverence, its frivolity.
Still other Russian critics--representatives of the less "orthodox" wing of the literary fraternity-- hailed the book for its lively realism.
American readers will find A Ticket to the Stars a singular reading experience--one that gives a surprising view of life as lived by certain young Russians today.