In 1935, well into the era of communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S posing as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper "Pravda". They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through the lens of a Leica camera and humorous impressions of Americana in their notebooks. When they returned home, they published their work in "Ogonek", the Soviet equivalent of "Time" magazine, and later in the book "Odnoetazhnaia Amerika" (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost work - filled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographs - is now collected in "Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip", the first English publication.
- ISBN10 1568986009
- ISBN13 9781568986005
- Publish Date 31 August 2006
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 March 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton Architectural Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 158
- Language English