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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Everyman's Library)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One of the most chilling novels about the oppression of totalitarian regimes and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps; if Solzhenitsyn later became Russia's conscience in exile, this is the book with which he first challenged the brutal might of the Soviet Union.

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Vance was doubted by Gore Vidal to have been well-read enough to have made reference to the book in his diary, though the title was misspelled.

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Both denisovich and ishmael are misspelled, but that could be intentional.

— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 143

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 143

Vance was doubted by Gore Vidal to have been well-read enough to have made reference to the book in his diary, though the title was misspelled.

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Both denisovich and ishmael are misspelled, but that could be intentional.

He also doubts that Bremer was well read enough to make reference to Solzhenitsyn's Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich or quip as he crossed the Great Lakes call me ishmael.

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