A CAPTIVE OF TIME My Years with Pasternak by Olga Ivinskaya Translated by Max Hayward (C)

Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. Published in 1978 by Collins and Harville Press, with 488 pages and b/w photographs.  From the jacket: "For the last fourteen years of Boris Pasternak's life - the crucial period during which he wrote Doctor Zhivago - Olga Ivinskaya was his closest companion." Olga Ivinskaya tells about life in Moscow during the last years of Stalin's rule and the uncertain times of his successor, Khrushchev. She wrote about the origins of Doctor Zhivago and the motives for Pasternak to write it. This book is an account of Olga's life from 1946 to 1960. No shipping overseas.