The secrets we kept
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The secrets we kept
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The work The secrets we kept represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- The secrets we kept
- Statement of responsibility
- Lara Prescott
- Subject
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- Historical fiction
- Ivinskai͡a, Olʹga, 1912-1995 -- Fiction
- Novels
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 -- Fiction
- Prohibited books -- Fiction
- Secretaries -- Fiction
- Smuggling -- Fiction
- Spy fiction
- Biographical fiction
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Fiction
- Women spies -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Cold War -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world -- using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, but under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops, and invisibly ferry classified documents. Their story is intertwined with that of the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, who was sent to the Gulag and inspired Zhivago's heroine, Lara
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- JBL
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
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